Friday, October 12, 2007

Korea gives us the French fried-coated dawg!

We've been talking about having an 'american pop food' night, where we eat corn dogs (too quality, mind you) onion rings and such. Well, I just stumbled upon something too good to not share. The Koreas, who have us Kimchee now have out done themselves in producing, yes folks you couldn't have guessed it, French fry-coated hot dogs! (i've included some photos to prove it). The taste is said to be as obvious as it looks: " greasy but still crispy fries glued to a hotdog with a thick, neutral flavored batter". As It turns out. Seoul is packed full of artisan hot dog vendors dying to express themselves through the medium of 'the dawg'. (here i've included the various ends of these efforts). Vendors wrap them in bacon, mashed potato, corn batter or what looked to be seaweed then invariably deep fry them. You name it, they've done it to this coney island favorite.
Has the hot dog on a stick lost it's Seoul in these mutations and created an entirely new genus of culinary delight?

2 comments:

Jo Schaffer Layton said...

Wow!

imageseer said...

I knew that this would grab you, right up your alley.