Attending it were cooks from restaurants and hotels under the General Bureau of Public Service and various district restaurants management offices under the Public Catering Management Bureau of the Pyongyang City People's Committee. In the contest, they showed their knack of cooking ssukttok.

Ssukttok is well known for its high medicinal effect and peculiar taste.

Since emergence of Ancient Korea, the Korean people have used wormwood as medicinal and food material because this edible plant contains vitamin B1, B2, C and PP, protein and fatty and mineral substances.

It is one of the Koreans' customs to gather fresh wormwood and prepare ssukttok in spring and summer every year.

How to cook ssukttok is: Scald wormwood in boiling water with saleratus. Soak this wormwood in water for one day to take away its bitterness. Then pound squeezed wormwood in a mortar and mix it and powdered rice with hot water. Steam the mixture and turn it into a thin and flattened piece to make cakes.

With wormwood nearly ten kinds of rice cakes can be made.

Ssukttok is popular among the Korean people as one of the traditional dishes.