My friend Kristie Lu Stout, a CNN International anchor, visited a number of street hawker stalls in Seoul to sample a variety of treats, including honey strings mixed with nuts, a spiral cut fried potato on a stick, and this french-fry encrusted hot dog on a stick that Kristie photographed and posted to Twitter last week.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout goes on a street food safari
My friend Kristie Lu Stout, a CNN International anchor, visited a number of street hawker stalls in Seoul to sample a variety of treats, including honey strings mixed with nuts, a spiral cut fried potato on a stick, and this french-fry encrusted hot dog on a stick that Kristie photographed and posted to Twitter last week.
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Wow. Fried potato? On a STICK? Those people are /wacky/. I still prefer the fat guy on Travel who eats the weird native food, not native versions of American food.
1. A Seoul "street food safari" is incomplete without sampling the "bondaegi", boiled silkworm larvae. It's on every street corner, it smells to high heavens, and it's immensely popular. It's an unforgettable sight to see armies of truly beautiful women - of which Seoul has no shortage - all chowing down in public on bugs.
2. As a longtime viewer of both, I've concluded that CNN International is far superior in every way to CNN US, which continues to chase Fox News down the stupid hole. Wouldn't CNN US viewers enjoy a cool report like this? Or Kristie Lu Stout? I know I can't turn off a TV that has her on the screen.
Kristie's boss:
...o0(Does Kristie eat?)0o...
"Hey Kristie, we're going to do a segment where you walk around and eat stuff"
...o0(Whew, she does eat. Maybe I should ask her out to dinner.)0o...
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
Spiral cut fried potato on a stick? We had that this past year at the CNE in Toronto.
She has the best job ever.
Yeah I'd pretty much watch anything this woman decided to report.
This is really cool, even though I live in Taipei and this kind of food is everywhere (and is famous for it). Octopus is pretty tame compared to the various congealed blood skewers found in the Taiwan night markets! Cool to see a segment like this, but one thing - you're in Korea! You should try to speak some Korean, even if it's just thank you (kam-sah-hap-nida).