Denmark's best hotdog???

There is a bakery called Andersen Bakery in Copenhagen. This is actually a Japanese bakery with branches all over Japan. While local Danish bakeries are amazing, this is probably the only place you can get Japanese specialty breads such as anpan (read bean bun) or cream-pan (custard filled bun) or mellon-pan (cookie dough bread). As a Japanese, I get pretty excited for that.

But that is not really what this bakery is famous for. We had read in several travel guides that their hotdogs (yes, hotdogs) are "possibly the best in Denmark". But we had not had the chance to try it. We happened to be in the vicinity of the bakery today around lunch time, so we decided to give it a try. Well, everyone except for me got a hotdog (I had a sandwich). 

The kids got the "French hotdog", which is just a sausage stuffed into a wheat bun, and Jonathan got a regular hotdog with all the toppings on it. Danish hotdogs typically comes with a sausage on a bun, topped with pickles, and some crispy fried onions, ketchup and mustard. Yes, these fried onions make it taste so good! 50 kr or $8.50 is not cheap for a hotdog, but as you can see from the pictures, it was enormous! It is probably the biggest hotdog I have ever seen. Jonathan loves hotdogs, and he has a lot more hotdog eating experiences than I do, so I trust his judgement on this hotdog. So what's the verdict?? Did he have an out-of-this-world experience from this giant hotdog? Unfortunately, the answer was "No". He said that it had the "potential" to be the best hotdog ever, but the hotdog came with too much of everything, he could hardly taste the sausage. So that was too bad... I had part of Yuto's and it tasted quite good, especially the bread part. It was worth the try. 

We did a little gift/souvenir shopping today, and in the afternoon, we went to the food and wine department in the basement of Magasin department store to shop for the lunch party we are having tomorrow. Magasin is the oldest and largest department store in Scandinavia, and their food department carries top-quality food items, and is often compared to Harrods of London. It's just fun browsing through the amazing selection of food they have.

The girls team needed a coffee break, so we left the shopping to the boys, and Mio and I had a couple of macarons and a cannele (both my favorites!) from Meyer's Bakery, also located in the basement, and  another fantastic bakery in Denmark. They were so good.

Leave it to me!

Here's a street performer I saw today. He was playing some music with bottles with different levels of water in them. When I saw him he was playing, blind-folded, Bizet's Carmen, karaoke-ing to an orchestral recording from his portable stereo. He sounded pretty good and was quite a crowd pleaser... 

P.S. Just found out that my year-and-a-half old camera is missing a screw, and the cover is getting a bit loose! Please keep your fingers crossed so the camera will not literally "fall apart" before the end of this trip! (which we only have a few days left, but we also have one big event coming up...)