Ryan Farr Grills Up Hot Dogs During Week Two of Ferry Plaza's Street-Food Market

Farr, the king of chicharrones, and now of wieners.

Farr's house-made dogs have an almost creamy texture, with a warm burr from nutmeg and other spices. Ask for your Golden Dog Dogzilla-style, and what you get is a heap of chili-dog vividness. Only instead of canned chili and grated orange cheese, 4505's version smothers the wiener with kimchi, diced red onion, and a handful of chicharrones. Wicked. Farr told us he intends to make his own kimchi eventually (today, he was using stuff he scored at Rainbow), and do house-made mustard and ketchup, too.

The Chicken Beer Sausage had a casing that popped, with a gentle aura of herbs. The gob on offer today -- an adaptation of a traditional Pennsylvania snack cake -- fused orange, cardamom, and saffron, no doubt a juxtaposition that never worked its way into any snack cake known to Pittsburgh. Farr was promising to bring 4505's chocolate-bacon cupcakes to the market today, but -- sorry, pork fat junkies -- you may have to wait till next week.

The Ferry Plaza street-food market is open Thursdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. streetside in the building's South Arcade. Photo goodness after the jump.

A Golden Dog Dogzilla-style, with kimchi and pork rinds.