Tony Cu loves to try new foods. He's gone to Ho Ho Gourmet, a Chinese restaurant in St. Paul, to try the chicken wings. At Little Brazil, he ate coxinha, fried balls of dough. For a series on sandwiches, he ordered two at Clancey's in Minneapolis. Sampling and rating foods are his things. Novelty foods pique his interest.

On Thursday, Aug. 7, he brought his appetite to the Iowa State Fair to sample novelty dishes from pickle dawgs to grinder balls, with some butter cow and Giant Slide sightings along the way.

Cu reaches about 85,000 followers on Facebook , 21,200 on Instagram , and 3,360 fans on YouTube . More: 'MasterChef' winner and his son rate Iowa State Fair foods — see what got 4 corn dogs

But his big draw is on TikTok , where he has 671,000 followers.

This year, he d

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