This is a side dish that's cheap and simple, it uses hot dog sausages together with green spring onions and chilli to spice it up. In Thailand dishes like this are called "gop-gam", snacks served with beer at night, but it can also be served with rice to make a full meal.

Ingredients for 2 People
160 gms Hot Dog (1 packet)
1 Onion
20 gms Spring Onion
10 gms Coriander Leaves
10 gms Mint
4 Bird Chillies
1 Red Chilli
1 Tablespoon Lime or Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
200 ml Water

Preparation
1. Heat 200 ml water to the pan until it boils.
2. Slice the hot dogs into bite sized pieces, put in the boilng water and heat through for 2 minutes.
3. Remove the hot dogs and put in a mixing bowl.
3. Chop the bird chillies & red chilli, the onions , the spring onions ,and the coriander, and add to the mixing bowl.
4. Add the fish sauce, sugar, and lemon juice, into the bowl and mix all the ingredients together.
5. Serve it on a plate with a little mint garnish.

Serve With
Hot Rice
Salad

This is how we often eat hotdogs in our house. Rather than boil them in water and eat them in bread, we deep fry them and eat them with rice and spicy chilli sauce. Recipes don't come any simpler than this.

Ingredients for 2 People
1 Packet Hotdog
Oil for Deep Frying
Sweet Chillie Sauce

Preparation
1. Preheat the deep fat fryer or heat oil in a frying pan, enough to deep fry the hotdogs.
2. Chop the hot-dogs into 4 cm lengths and and cut a cross in each end of the hot dog.
3. You can see from the photograph that the ends of the hotdog open up.
4. Fry the hotdogs for a minute until cooked.
5. Serve with sweet chilli sauce.

Serve With
Hot Rice
Lettuce
Cucumber
Tomato

You've seen the sweet version of Kanom Tokyo before. There is also this savoury version in Thailand, which is a very simple dish of hotdog sausages wrapped in pancakes and served with sweet chilli sauce. After yesterdays complicated picnic box, I thought I do something a little simpler today.

Ingredients
100 gms Wheat Flour
3 Teaspoons Bicarbonate of Soda
1 Teaspoon Salt
1 Egg
4 Tablespoons Sugar
2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
4-5 Hot Dog Sausages (Smoked is best)

Preparation
1. Mix Then wheat flour, milk, egg, salt, sugar and bicabonate Of soda together and blend for 1 minute.
2. Heat a saucepan, add a knob of butter and melt it, and pour in enough of the batter to make a pancake. For this we need pancakes the same size as the hotdog. Cooked on both sides.
3. Heat the hotdogs separately, in very hot brine.
4. Roll the pancakes around the sausage.
5. When I make these, I like to spread sweet chilli sauce over the pancakes as a sweet spicy layer, but when you buy them from street vendors, they usually serve the dipping sauce separately.