Sasebo Burger

'Local' hamburgers thrive in Japan with own taste added

Monday 05th January, 05:17 AM JST

By Takaki Tominaga

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mrhog123 at 02:24 PM JST - 6th January

The haburger made of oysters in Hiroshima are wonderful. Especially when combined with a good beer and a roasted ear of corn.
Sarge at 02:27 PM JST - 6th January

A good burger must have the following:

Pickle slices, onion slices, tomato slices, mustard, catsup.
OhioDonna at 01:23 AM JST - 7th January

When I order a 'burger' I expect it to be made of beef. I usually make my own hamburgers because I am able to purchase beef without the hormones. The terms I use for the other stuff are chicken patties, fish patties, etc. I would like to try the oyster 'pattie" and some of the other seafodd 'patties'.
HeathenCabin at 03:56 AM JST - 7th January

Japanese hamburgers- what a joke. I ate at a place that was called the diner I think. 90 percent bread.

Japan sends the sushi police out on patrol while bastardizing every other food. There are not any hamburgers here, just retarded concoctions that should be called "fail burgers."
Sarge at 07:22 AM JST - 7th January

OhioDonna - How about a nice whale burger?

HeathenCabin - "retarded concoctions"

You mean MOS Burger's rice burgers? Yes, they actually sandwich the beef between two slabs of rice! Ho ho ho!
Yelnats at 03:56 PM JST - 7th January

Wait until my place opens! My burgers are wonderful!
Sarge at 04:05 PM JST - 7th January

Yeinats - Details, please!
ca1ic0cat at 03:36 AM JST - 8th January

And thank heaven they do thrive, I hate McDonald's. The Japanese stuff is great.
Sarge at 10:47 AM JST - 8th January

"I hate McDonald's"

So what? Millions of others be lovin' it!
Spidey at 12:27 PM JST - 8th January

"A good burger must have the following:Pickle slices, onion slices, tomato slices, mustard, catsup."

Sarge...you forgot the two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese and the sesame seed buns.

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techall at 12:37 PM JST - 8th January

Should be eaten to Jimmy Buffet's "Cheese Burgers in Paradise" as background music.
Otaru at 02:21 PM JST - 8th January

I still like MOS Burger. It's the first place I ever went in Japan.
Sarge at 04:44 PM JST - 8th January

Spidey - A Big Mac, unfortunately, doesn't have tomato slices. Neither does a Quarter Pounder. A Whopper, however does! Even the Jr. Whopper! As does the Wendy's Burger.
But I've got an even better idea to save money and make a tastier burger: Get a 99 yen Wendy's junior burger, which has pickles and a slice of onion on it already, get your own tomato at the yaosan and put a nice thick slice on it! Mmmmmm!
PichuTanaka at 02:57 AM JST - 9th January

I was in Cuba and had a pork burger. The only problem was that they forgot to remove some hair.

Last time I have that.
SapporoNamban at 08:42 PM JST - 11th January

Has anyone else noticed most "Japanese" style "burgers" are always football shaped? Why is this? They seem to hate making anything round. It's always this sickly looking ovoid thing. I can't figure it out.

Sasebo Burgers are alright. About as normal a real burger you can get here. Everything else is downright strange. If you want a real and proper hamburger, like a normal American one, you have to go to a foreigner-owned place.

That said, a lot of the Japanese style "burgers" are good. It depends where you go. A lot use this nasty "is it really meat?" super-fine mince of something, so it never tastes the same to me as a ground-beef burger from the US- always like I'm eating pureed meat. Then some have fillers mixed in, usually hard-boiled eggs (sometimes WHOLE), or other weird stuff. Don't get me wrong, a lot of it, despite the football patty shape, you could call a burger. But oyster-burger? mackerel-burger? meat between rice burger at MOS burger? Maybe they are good. I'm sure they really are, in their own right- but let's not call such things "burgers", OK? You can only take something so far before it's something else, let's call them patty-sandwiches or something.

And stop stuffing minced egg into my mince-meat "burger"! Arrg!