Hoeryeong Son Mandu Guk 회령손만두국

Hoeryeong-style dumplings here are small and hand-folded, with a pale filling that skips kimchi and leans hard on black pepper. Manduguk serves them in a clear broth that tastes of meat, anchovy and mushroom with a faint herbal note, alongside nokdu bindaetteok, a mung-bean pancake crisp outside, and icy water kimchi. The Hoeryeong ttukbaegi breaks the dumplings up over rice in a peppery broth, North Korean style.