Eating Japanese-Style Hot Dogs From a Street Cart in Vancouver
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On the downtown corner of Burrard and Smithe Streets, you'll find Japa Dog, a
stand serving juicy hot dogs with eccentric, colourful, and flavourful extras like
seaweed and sprouts.
There's the Misomayo, a turkey hot dog with drizzled
Japanese mayonnaise, the Terimayo, an all-beef dog splattered with white cream
sauce and sprinkled with non-traditional toppings, as well as a "regular" menu
of smokies, from jalapeno and cheese dogs to bratwurst and Bavarian smokies. My
favorite is topped with fried onions Japanese mayo, Teriyaki sauce and slivered
seaweed.
The
best thing about the meal is standing around with everyone else on this busy
corner, grubbing down, and people watching during a quick lunch break.
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Japa Dog in
Vancouver Review
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JapaDog is easily the most successful of the mad sausage
scientists. Since opening in 2005, it’s expanded to three locations around
Vancouver (see www.japadog.com ), and
celebrities from Anthony Bourdain to Ice Cube have feasted on its hot dogs,
topped with traditional Japanese ingredients. On the afternoon I visited the
branch at Burrard and Haro Streets in shiny downtown Vancouver, in front of the
Sutton Place Hotel, the line for hot dogs was six people deep — a few
first-timers, but many regulars with favorite orders.
I sampled two of JapaDog’s specialties. The Okonomi (6.25 dollars) takes its
name from okonomiyaki, a cabbage and pork pancake that is popular in Osaka,
which is topped with mayonnaise, a thick, sweet, Worcestershire-based sauce and
bonito flakes. The tube-steak version is a clever adaptation, using high-quality
kurobuta pork in the dog, fried cabbage on top, along with the sauces (the
fattiness of the mayonnaise pairs well with that of the meat) and the flakes,
which waved in the warm late-summer breeze.
Matt Gross for The New York Times |
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