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Every day, Misa Tamura hand-punches gold and red-coloured maple leaves out of yuba -- membrane-like dried tofu skin -- to sprinkle on Japanese hotdogs celebrating Japan's figure skating Olympic hopeful Mao Asada. The hotdogs, sold at her husband Noriki Tamura's popular Japadog street stand at Smythe and Burrard, are being snapped up these days by Japanese media in town for the Olympic Games, along with Japanese tourists and the stand's regular customers. The hotdogs were created after Japanese media, in search of stories for home viewers, visited Tamura's stand and asked whether he offered anything in honour of the nation's skating star. What emerged was the Mao dog, an almost $10 delicacy complete with a Kobe beef dog and tongkatsu sauce. But the crowning feature is definitely the sprinkle of colourful maple leaves. "Why?" said Tamura with a laugh. "Because I am Japanese. We hope she will get the gold medal"...more...
Lewis said the idea for his Japanese-fusion hot dog business, Domo Dogs, came from a successful Japanese hot dog stand the couple came across while Grae was pursuing a graduate degree in Canada.
"Being a dyed-in-wool-foodie and a part time cook, I couldn't leave well enough alone and kept monkeying with sauces and ingredients at our apartment in Vancouver," he said. "I finally hit on the best-tasting combination of flavors we'd ever tasted. That was our one treat per week, our weekly Friday night supper."
When the couple could no longer afford Grae's tuition on their dwindling savings, they moved back to the U.S., invested the last of their 401(k) money into a hot dog cart, plastered handmade signs onto it, paid for permits and pushed off into the streets. When Portland's rainy season finally ended and the clouds broke around July 4 of this year, Lewis said, Domo Dogs finally started to take off.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Please tell me that menu doesn't include a "Love Meat" hotdog and that, yes, it is just a trick of my aging (or, maybe the Church was right and they're masturbation-affected) eyes....
Yokohammer wrote:I saw the same thing and was similarly bemused ... but then my attention was deflected by the choco-banana hot dog right next to it and I had to rush to the bathroom (to throw up).
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Culturally insensitive Western barbarian pig...how dare you fail to appreciate the traditional Japanese culinary wabi-sabi delights of strawberries and cream, peaches, yakisoba, curry and ebi all in the same sandwich.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Where's the butter dog?
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