Japanese festival food: cheese Korean corn dog

Korean Corn dogs are hot dogs, cheese, rice cakes, or fish cakes fried in a batter on a stick and dressed with a topping such as ketchup or mayo. In the case of the feature photo of this post, the Korean Corn Dogs are cheese and are finished with a coating of sugar. The cheese is mozzarella and there is quite a generous amount. But there would want to be considering one of these cost 600 yen!

This photo was taken last January at a New Year's event. It was the first time I had actually seen a 'Korean' cheese hot dog stand (food stall) at a festival like this. They have probably been around for a while, but cheese dogs are not the first on my list of festival foods I want to eat so I may not have noticed them before. Or they could have been the fad at that time! It is quite common for certain food to come in and out of fashion. But there are staples at Japanese festivals that have remained popular throughout the years. Such as Okonomiyaki, Yakisoba and Takoyaki. 

The Korean Style Cheese Corn Dog, or hotdog as they call it as per the photo, was pretty good. Better than I expected. Despite that I would not be in a rush to order it again. There are still plenty of festival foods I have to try. There are over 100 and even though I have been in Japan about 20 years, I still haven't tried them all! Have you tried this type of cheese dog? Did you like it?