Comments on: Junk food in Asia

By: notyou

notyou — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:16:00 +0000

Well they use real dog meat in their ‘hotdogs’. Hope they use real French in their ‘french fries’

By: mik

mik — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:25:52 +0000

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.

By: dani

dani — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:53:24 +0000

as an asian i have to add that your version of fat and our version of fat varies ALOT!

By: hyrum

hyrum — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:39:56 +0000

That is disgusting, but I will still eat it.

By: dogg1

dogg1 — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:17:22 +0000

looks like a uk potato dog, a salty saveloy covered by spud bits sellin 4 �1.10 at fillin stations.
tidy!

Mmm, Mmm.

By: robert

robert — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:33:01 +0000

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!

By: you dont know

you dont know — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:04:25 +0000

Personally, that looks really good to me.

By: Downstrike

Downstrike — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:22:32 +0000

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

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:45:55 +0000

YUMMY!! i like Asian food

Go for it.

By: MoneyMoose

MoneyMoose — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:56:50 +0000

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