Talking about Malaysian burger
Everyone knows a burger-even a 3 years old knows it. My first memory of burger was the classical home fried Ramly Burger that we usually ate in between 2 slices of Kunci Emas bread or the always so good Gardenia. It was a fried beef patty that was good with bits of white beef fat mixed with mince meat. Chicken burger was a rarity then, and if we were rather lucky, there was the burger bread, that add to our imagination of a real American Burger.
When McDonalds came over to Malaysia, blooming it popularity by 1994-the Burger culture in Malaysia started to change. Before those time, American Burger that we know was only at the hotel, and unfortunately was pale to comparison to what a real burger is all about. McDonalds came with too much of choices and eventually make it cheap, that other contenders started involving in the same tactics. Many choices and cheap, I am not complaining, I am grinning with satisfaction. Saying that, I am proud to know, our McDonlads is maybe the cheapest in the world.
Then came the Chilis's and TGIF-the big grilled burger-which is so really good. Larger thick juicy beef patty, with wholesome sesame buns toast to perfection, lots of cheese with layered of sauce and freshly prepared vegetables, sides with huge chunky filling fries. It was to die for. Burger take over the steak culture of letting the customers choose on the way they like it to be cook-rare or well done, or with other stuff. Soon after-some boutique cafe started introducing gourmet burger. The uniqueness and the creativity has no limit. The asian culture was absorbed, the vegetarian has their burger, the seafood lover can have crab burger and my favourite- mushroom burger with variety of layered mushrooms.
It took the Malaysian burger a while to survive.However, it did survived. As we usually call it "Burger Abang", it does not taste as good or as interesting as the other "new" contenders, but as the price was good and it is nearly found every where on the roadside at the wee hours of night, it survives. But I guess, it doesn't take long for the new Malaysian Generation Y to evolve it, and it is for good.
Burger-bira, Burger-sel are a few examples of Malaysia Burger evolution. The beef patty was still the malaysian burger patty-but is marinated to add different flavours and layered with other junkies that you could ever imagine-cheese, eggs, vege, mushroom, beef slices. To be truly Malaysian-the sauces are flowing like madness-integrating cheesy sauce with Mayo, malaysian chili sauce and the black pepper. The price was not bad ranging from rm5-9-based on the complexity of the burger itself.
What truly wonderful now-is the Burger Bakar or Burger Burn. I had my bite of it last Saturday and I have to say, it will change Malaysian perpective on gourmet burger. With a little bit of improvisation, the burger bakar can definitely take over the American Burger at anytime. With huge chunk of real beef patty that is Halal, deliciously mould and seasoned and grilled to Malaysian taste, the layered with beef bacon, fried oyster mushroom, homemade onions rings, cheese and more cheese with vegetables, served with flowing sauces-eating it-I can forget my craving for that American Burger at Chili's of TGIF. With the price and the "lepak"ambience that it offers, I bet more can enjoy the real gourmet burger.
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Malaysian food is so amazing, no one can deny that. On the other hand, we malaysian is truly good on recreating the food from others. And I believe, with more budding ideas, we could create a burger that will hook the world to it taste. When I was doing my posting in Singapore 2 months ago, one of my singaporean lab staff was complaining to me that during her recent KL weekend trip, she did not managed to eat the "Burger Abang" and she was feeling so dissapointed. And when I asked her back-is the "Burger Abang" was what she was really referring too, showing the stall picture on the net- she replied "Yes Adli, that is the burger. I had it before, once, and it tasted so soooo gooood". With that-it concludes the potential of a Malaysian Burger
When McDonalds came over to Malaysia, blooming it popularity by 1994-the Burger culture in Malaysia started to change. Before those time, American Burger that we know was only at the hotel, and unfortunately was pale to comparison to what a real burger is all about. McDonalds came with too much of choices and eventually make it cheap, that other contenders started involving in the same tactics. Many choices and cheap, I am not complaining, I am grinning with satisfaction. Saying that, I am proud to know, our McDonlads is maybe the cheapest in the world.
Then came the Chilis's and TGIF-the big grilled burger-which is so really good. Larger thick juicy beef patty, with wholesome sesame buns toast to perfection, lots of cheese with layered of sauce and freshly prepared vegetables, sides with huge chunky filling fries. It was to die for. Burger take over the steak culture of letting the customers choose on the way they like it to be cook-rare or well done, or with other stuff. Soon after-some boutique cafe started introducing gourmet burger. The uniqueness and the creativity has no limit. The asian culture was absorbed, the vegetarian has their burger, the seafood lover can have crab burger and my favourite- mushroom burger with variety of layered mushrooms.It took the Malaysian burger a while to survive.However, it did survived. As we usually call it "Burger Abang", it does not taste as good or as interesting as the other "new" contenders, but as the price was good and it is nearly found every where on the roadside at the wee hours of night, it survives. But I guess, it doesn't take long for the new Malaysian Generation Y to evolve it, and it is for good.
Burger-bira, Burger-sel are a few examples of Malaysia Burger evolution. The beef patty was still the malaysian burger patty-but is marinated to add different flavours and layered with other junkies that you could ever imagine-cheese, eggs, vege, mushroom, beef slices. To be truly Malaysian-the sauces are flowing like madness-integrating cheesy sauce with Mayo, malaysian chili sauce and the black pepper. The price was not bad ranging from rm5-9-based on the complexity of the burger itself.
What truly wonderful now-is the Burger Bakar or Burger Burn. I had my bite of it last Saturday and I have to say, it will change Malaysian perpective on gourmet burger. With a little bit of improvisation, the burger bakar can definitely take over the American Burger at anytime. With huge chunk of real beef patty that is Halal, deliciously mould and seasoned and grilled to Malaysian taste, the layered with beef bacon, fried oyster mushroom, homemade onions rings, cheese and more cheese with vegetables, served with flowing sauces-eating it-I can forget my craving for that American Burger at Chili's of TGIF. With the price and the "lepak"ambience that it offers, I bet more can enjoy the real gourmet burger.
Malaysian food is so amazing, no one can deny that. On the other hand, we malaysian is truly good on recreating the food from others. And I believe, with more budding ideas, we could create a burger that will hook the world to it taste. When I was doing my posting in Singapore 2 months ago, one of my singaporean lab staff was complaining to me that during her recent KL weekend trip, she did not managed to eat the "Burger Abang" and she was feeling so dissapointed. And when I asked her back-is the "Burger Abang" was what she was really referring too, showing the stall picture on the net- she replied "Yes Adli, that is the burger. I had it before, once, and it tasted so soooo gooood". With that-it concludes the potential of a Malaysian Burger
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