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I Had the BEST Hot Dog in My Life!!

2025-11-15 Travel & Events
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Mark Wiens
Mark Wiens
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Contrasting Norway's $10 Reindeer Hot Dog with a $500 Fjord Dining Expedition at Iris

Discover the culinary extremes of Norway, comparing the nation's best street food sausage against an 18-course tasting menu inside the world's largest floating art installation. You gain insight into two vastly different, yet equally memorable, high-impact food adventures.

Short Summary

  • Experience the exceptional quality of a $10.10 reindeer sausage featuring distinct casing snap in Bergen.
  • Dine inside the Salmon Eye structure, recognized as the world's largest floating art installation hidden within a fjord.
  • Chef Anika Madsen designs each 18-course menu around sustainability, local marine ingredients, and Norwegian geography.
  • The meal progression involves several stages, officially termed "Expedition Dining," starting before the main floating structure.

This document contrasts two monumental Norwegian food experiences: an inexpensive, world-class street food encounter and an expensive, highly conceptualized fine dining journey. Note how the methodology shifts from simple perfection in the street food context to complex storytelling and hyper-locality in the fine dining setting.

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Today we’re eating a $10 hot dog followed by a $500 meal at one of the most isolated and unique restaurants in Norway! Friends in the video: Jeffrey Merrihue (https://www.instagram.com/xtremefoodies_/) Kevin Chan (https://www.instagram.com/finediningexp/) Our food adventure all begins in Bergen, where we picked up our rental car… and Bergen happens to have one of the best hot dog stalls in the country. Trekroneren, Bergen, Norway (https://maps.app.goo.gl/r3hg5JfDH1XTbT8TA) - This place self proclaimed says they serve the world's best hot dog, and after trying it I have to agree. I tried their signature reindeer sausage, lingonberry, crispy onions - and it was one of the best sausages I’ve ever had. Price - 95 KR ($10.10) Iris, Salmon Eye, Norway (https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yw8isGiVywxEiThg9) - Next up we drove a couple hours to get to Salmon Eye, and within a beautiful fjord you’ll find one of the most unique dining destinations in the world - Iris! Our meal started with a trip to the Boat House, before we took the to the largest floating art installation in the world, home to Iris Restaurant. Head Chef Anika Madsen has worked in top kitchen in Denmark before opening Iris, where her and her husband and team now serve an 18 course meal that’s called Expedition Dining. Here are all the dishes I tried: CONE OF PLENTY - Aromatic herbs, fermented gooseberry and jasmine blossom. TIDEMARK - Scallop, oyster emulsion, salads from Astrid & lemon butter sauce 500 METERS - Blue mussel, beach crab and rock weed TOPPTUR - Crispy onion, langoustine tartare and smoked fresh cheese COAT OF ARMS - Crispy croustade, Gastro Unika Gold caviar & salted mahogany clam BROWN CRAB CIRCUIT - Toasted blinis, poached brown crab, crispy seaweed, black currant leaf, reindeer mousse & preserved pine cones IT'S A TRAP! - Shrimp, tomatoes & tamarind CRACK THE SILENCE - Sea urchin, fresh greens, raspberry & rose hip Nam Jim WEEDS OF THE SEA - Cuttlefish, celeriac & lovage NOT YOUR FINNBIFF - Reindeer filet, lardo, pepper sauce and confit fennel TRASH OR TREASURE? - Scallop offcuts, horseradish, squid ink & lemon rind SPRUCED UP - Crispy tartelet, pickled spruce needles, pine sorbet & caviar WHEY HIT WONDER - Fresh Brunost, laminated brioche, red currant, strawberries & rum/plum ice cream Price - 4,700 NOK ($473.84) per person (with wine over $500 per person) Both the $10 hot dog and the $500 meal at Iris were absolutely incredible experiences. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:34 Trekroneren Hot Dog Stall 3:00 Drive to Salmon Eye, Norway 3:56 Boat Ride 5:14 Boat House 8:41 Iris Restaurant, Norway 14:25 Chef Anika Madsen 15:05 Main Dishes 22:09 Norwegian Desserts 27:00 $10 Hot Dog VS $500 Norwegian Fine Dining Follow for more food: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkWiensAbroad https://www.facebook.com/markwiensfoodvideos https://www.instagram.com/migrationology/ https://www.tiktok.com/@markwiens 👕 T-shirts: https://store.migrationology.com/ 🎥 Camera gear I use: https://amzn.to/3FVdBUd (some of these are affiliate links and I will make a small commission from any sales)

Top Comments (10)

@MarkWiens 2025-11-15

It really was probably the best hot dog I've ever had in my life!

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@jatinkodial6241 2025-11-15

I really love your Norway series. As a Norwegian, I think you are presenting our country and food in a great way. I love that you are exploring all the different local cuisines.

177 2 replies
@MarthGrtn 2025-11-21

goes for a 500$ meal, advertises the hot dog. legend.

59 1 replies
@goblue_ie88 2025-11-15

If Mark titled this vlog “…Best Hot Dog”, then you know that the dinner on the ship was just ok. Mark is too polite to say that.

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@VickyAdelia-bs2yu 2025-11-15

LOVE your Norway series, Mark! And so glad you went to Iris!! I follow both your and Alexander the Guest's channels and appreciate the different ways you both featured Iris in the videos. Yours are definitely more casual yet still jam-packed with great information as usual.

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@deepjyotigohain4359 2025-11-15

Mark entering Iris gave the vibe of the plot of "the Menu" movie.

21 1 replies
@greenfriedpotatoes 2025-11-15

You actually made national news in Norway:)

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@dazuotv 2025-11-15

Thank you for the wonderful video about the finest gourmet food in Europe👍

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@kilianhjemgaard8339 2025-11-15

I am so grateful to be born and raised in Bergen, still living here, and that i get to eat at Trekroneren any time i want. I have yet to taste a better hotdog anywhere else!

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@JustinCopeland-k8d8u 2025-11-16

I have been watching Mark for awhile. All do respect to Mark and his family

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