Japadog - Japanese Hot Dogs

[Mulboyne]

Vancouver Sun: Hot dogs, Japanese style
Gwen Stefani went nuts for the Harajuku Girls and their Japanese take on hip. On Burrard Sreet, Noriki Tamura's doing a Japanese take on hot dogs. They're as strange as a Harajuku school girl, but hey, we're a country that got addicted to the once-foreign sushi. And the lineups at lunch and dinner to the little cart are mostly for the hot dogs loaded with Japanese condiments...Those straying into new hot dog territory have a choice of Misomayo, a turkey dog with Japanese mayo, kaiware (sprouted daikon seeds) and miso sesame; or Oroshi, with bratwurst, onion, daikon radish and soy; or Terimayo (beef sausage) with Japanese mayo, teriyaki sauce, fried onions and nori sprinkles...more...

[Catoneinutica]

[Mulboyne]

Vancouver Sun: Street vendor puts on the dog for popular Japanese figure skater

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...

[TennoChinko]

"Japadog"?

Bwa ha ha!

It's like some African immigrant from Niger or Nigeria selling NiggaBBQ!

We be the world ...

WoPizza anyone?

Nah, I think I'll go for the GooKimchi...




Cucking Flueless!

[Bucky]

And now in Portland

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.

And in Seattle

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

That's not a Japanese hot dog...this is a Japanese hot dog: Natto flavor!

[IparryU]

That's not a Japanese hot dog...this is a Japanese hot dog: Natto flavor!

yes that is... nasty

[Bucky]

Japadog in Vancouver. Now in Bricks and Mortors. I personally prefer a Chicago hotdog.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

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]

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....

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]

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).

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.

[dimwit]

The problem is that it isn't wabi-sabi, it is just that most people in the west would refer to it as leftover whatsit. The stuff in your fridge you mix together when you really don't feel like shopping.

[Yokohammer]

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.

Guilty as charged!

The thing is, I have no problem with choco-banana, it's just that they've put it in a fucking hot-dog bun!!

... 'scuse me ... 'nother trip to the bathroom ...

[Bucky]

These photos were taken during our recent visit to Vancouver. Bucky Jr. and Mrs. Bucky were eager to indulge themselves. I refrained from partaking. Japadog was not my cup of tea.

[kimekime]

[Mike Oxlong]

Where's the butter dog?

[Greji]

Where's the butter dog?

My GF's got a whole pound....

[kimekime]