Chicken Soup Boiled with Insam, Healthy Dish in Midsummer

Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- A Korean proverb says "Like cures like".

Therefore, the Korean people have regarded it as a custom good for health to make hot foods in the hottest period of summer.

Among them is chicken soup boiled with insam, forest asiabell, glutinous rice and dates in its stomach.

Its main ingredients are insam with great medicinal properties and nutritious chicken easy to digest.

It is efficacious for recovering health declined due to hot weather and preventing or treating diseases such as diabetes, liver malfunction and anemia.

Now when the sultry weather persists, many guests are going to Roast Chicken House in Changgwang street of a chain of restaurants and the Changjon Haemaji Restaurant and other restaurants in Pyongyang to enjoy chicken soup boiled with insam.

The area famous for the dish is Kaesong.

Insam in the area has a medicinal effect incomparable with those in other regions for its peculiar soil and water quality and unique cultivation method. So, chicken soup boiled with insam in the area of Kaesong gains popularity among not only the Korean people but also overseas Koreans and foreigners. -0-