Sinsollo is one of the Korean national foods well-known to the world.
Sinsollo means both a cooking brazier that was used by a spirit and food that is eaten while boiling in the brazier.
According to the historical records, from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century a man named Jong Hui Ryang renounced the then irrational society and lived alone in the mountain. He made a unique cooking brazier and boiled food there to eat. He looked like a spirit; the brazier looked like a mysterious one that was used by the spirit; the food was the mysteriously delicious one that the spirit used to eat. In this sense it was called Sinsollo.
The credibility of this episode is not perfect, but it is clear that Sinsollo is one of the Korean foods that have been handed down from olden times.
Sinsollo is a high-class dish made by setting fire to a fire box and cooking in it beef, pheasant meat, chicken, sea cucumber, sea ear, lobster, tripe and liver of cattle, egg, mushroom, parsley, carrot, the Welsh onion, garlic, ginkgo, pine nut, walnut and so on.
Sinsollo is not only tasty but also nutritious. So it has been well-known to the world for a long time as the food that is good for health and longevity.
The brazier is gracious and peculiar in shape and materials of Sinsollo are juicy and colorful, thus making people enjoy. Sinsollo is a food superior hygienically and culturally as well as in digestion and absorption when the people enjoy it while boiling by themselves.
The DPRK now serve Sinsollo in the Okryu Restaurant and several other restaurants.
