r burger

R Burger has all the elements of a winner, its Japanese provenence, the play of a familiar food type- the burger, intersecting it with flavours and ingredients more often found in a Japanese restaurant than a diner; flavours that too have become familiar in many parts of the world but not in a burger. R Burger, is basically a Japanese take on the burger, an exoctizing or familiarizing, depending on where you see it from. You might imagine it to be another Mosburger but the concept and outcome is radically different.

In all the burgers at R Burger, the archtypal form of the burger can still be recognized, a sliced bun with a meat patty and some condiments sandwiched in between. But instead of a stack of toasted bread bun, sliced tomato, lettuce, patty and ketchup, the burger (well, the classic R burger which I had) is constructed with a branded steamed rice bun, beef patty, pickled daikon, a shiso leaf and accented with a soy-base sauce. The combination was quite intriguing and the Japanese flavour profile can definitely be discerned, plus anything made with shiso, I would almost certainly like it.

While I enjoyed the flavour combination conceptually, the burger falters with the choice of the unappetizing zombie beef patty which was dry and has very little flavour. add any kind of pleasant bite or texture to the burger as a whole. Also, its greyish hue did not help its cause.

I'll stick to Mosburger for now.


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