Oh K-Dog NYC

Two New Hot Dog Restaurants Come to the Rescue in Pandemic Times | Eater NY

"On Orchard Street near the corner of Broome I tried a new Korean battered-dog storefront called OhK-Dog, whose enthusiastic awning warns there’s no corn involved—and while I’d miss the corn-bread crust of a fairground corn dog, the rice-flour coating fries up crisp and creates its own appealing identity. The concept is elaborate: 12 rice dogs include simple choices like the OhK classic ($2.99) (pork-and-beef) and the premium beef hot dog ($3.99), as well as novelty items such as a potato hot dog with embedded potato cubes (a nifty idea that saved me from buying fries) and a squid ink half-and-half ($4.49) that pairs hot dog and gooey mozzarella in one stick; nibbling to the cheese–meat border is part of the fun, and the squid ink is mainly visual rather than tasty. Condiments are a deliberate part of the experience—rice dogs are often rolled in white sugar (beware if you don’t want sweet), then helically squirted with sauces from bottles (ketchup, mustard, gochu hot sauce, “sweet chilli”), applied by an employee as you turn the stick. The tiny storefront has no seating but an unfailingly enthusiastic staff and also serves egg toasts (including an avocado version), a couple of slushies, and a spicy red rice-cake stew; still, I’d advise concentrating on the weenies, especially those that look like corn dogs but taste quite different because of their rice-dough wrapper." - Robert Sietsema