It’s not a corn dog if it isn’t covered in fried potatoes, packed with mozzarella cheese or sugarcoated and fried like a churro. That’s the belief a minimum of, at a brand-new Korean hotdog chain that’s touched down in Hicksville.
Kong Dog, a quickly broadening franchise from Chicago, opened in March in the food court of the Broadway Commons Mall. The gorilla-themed kiosk has a cool menu of extravagantly topped hot dogs (K-dogs) served on a stick comparable to other leading chains and Yea’s Kitchen in Jericho, which likewise offers the dogs in addition to hot meals and Korean fried chicken.
A street food trend from Korea that’s thriving in the U.S., K-dogs are elegant as they get. Rather than corn flour, the batter is typically made with rice flour dough and crusted with wild garnishes like ramen or soybean injeolmi powder. Kong Dog likewise does rainbow rice puffs that appear like Fruity Pebbles. The menu likewise surpasses the basic wiener, letting you replace your dog with a stick of mozzarella cheese, a chicken sausage or a plant-based link.
The typical relocation is to purchase a half-and-half, which includes half a beef hotdog and half mozzarella cheese, which ends up being melty and stringy as you take a bite.
But the leading stunner menu product is the easy Potato Kong Dog, jumps and bounds above the others in taste and texture. It’s studded with bite-sized French french fries that jut out the dough at all angles, making it appear like a dinosaur or the Bowser bad guy from Mario. If this thing wasn’t husky and crispy enough, the French fry cubes include that additional potato crunch.
The spaghetti dog (not in fact filled with spaghetti, however including a spray of Parmesan cheese and marinara sauce) and the Hot Cheetos dog (almost as untidy as King Kong treking through Manhattan) dissatisfy in contrast. Ditto with the Kong french fries, cleaned with Hot Cheetos dust, spicy mayo, Parmesan cheese and catsup. All good ideas, however the french fries are soaked. Luckily, among these leviathan corn dogs is all you require.
Kong Dog is inside the second-level food court at the Broadway Commons Mall, 358 B Broadway Mall, Hicksville. It’s open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 11 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 347-523-0016, kongdog.us
