Junk food in Asia
The above pictured monstrosity will probably be showing up at an event near you soon. It’s a hot dog covered with chunks of French fries then coated with batter and deep fried. And it ain’t something I read about at the Indiana State Fair, but a commonly sold item on the streets of Seoul, South Korea. (Click here for more photos)
French fries aren’t the only thing that coat hot dogs in Korea. Kiosk vendors
wrap them in bacon, mashed potato, corn batter or what looked to be seaweed then invariably deep fry them.
And God only knows what kind of oils they’re deep fried in.
Remember this post the next time you recommend a low-carb diet to someone, and that someone tells you that Asians live longer because their diet is primarily rice.
On another note, there are a number of comments that I haven’t gotten to yet and probably won’t until late tonight. I scored tickets to the Dallas – New England Patriots football game today in Dallas. If you watch the game and the TV pans the crowd, look for me (along with wife, son and two grandsons) on the 45 yard line about 6 rows up on the Dallas side. Right now New England is a 4.5 point favorite – if you’re smart, you’ll take Dallas and the points. That’s what I’m doing.
If I don’t get to the comments tonight, it won’t be until late tomorrow. MD and I are flying to the East Coast at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning. On US Air. God help us.
Looks like something you would see in America.
It probably will be something you see in America all too soon.
MRE
What don’t Korean/Japanese/Chinese street vendors sell? Seriously.
You could get any chunk of mammal, put a stick in it, deep fry it, and sell it as Mystery Meat on a Stick. This is a pretty tame meal.
Health-wise, of course, well…
If I go there, I certainly won’t be eating Mystery Meat on a Stick. But maybe grilled…
Cheers–
MRE
YUMMY!! i like Asian food
Go for it.
If you’re really lucky, they’ll fry it in peanut oil, (raw, not denatured), which is really healthy and adds great flavor!
Don’t bother selling that contraption in Kampuchea; in the process of tutoring refugees from there in the 80s, I learned that most of them love hamburgers, but despise fries. Then again, maybe it was just the refugees; I think the crunchy outside and soft inside of fries reminded them of insects they’d been forced to subsist on when they were fleeing for their lives.
Peanut oil adds great flavor, but healthful, I’m not so sure.
Cheers–
MRE
Personally, that looks really good to me.
I spent a couple years in Korea, and although I didn’t see that monstrosity there, I did see quite a few streetside vendors selling boiled silkworm larvae. I tried some once, and it tasted like… insects smell (I remember what they smell like from my childhood – duh). Do a write up!
looks like a uk potato dog, a salty saveloy covered by spud bits sellin 4 £1.10 at fillin stations.
tidy!
Mmm, Mmm.
That is disgusting, but I will still eat it.
as an asian i have to add that your version of fat and our version of fat varies ALOT!
Well coming from Scotland that looks like a healthy snack to me.
I remember going to the chippy at lunch at school and getting deep fried pizza, deep fried mars bars (or any choc bar), deep fried haggis and irn bru. Those were the days! And I’m still only 11 stone.
Well they use real dog meat in their ‘hotdogs’. Hope they use real French in their ‘french fries’