Sugar Bun is Sarawak’s own franchise and had a chain of fast food restaurants all over Sabah and Sarawak but some of the outlets have closed down now and I do not really know how many there are left these days and in which places. Sibu itself has three, I think – one near the Star Cineplex (formerly Cathay Cinema), one in the Pedada Commercial Centre near my house and the original and biggest one at the Sibu Gateway…
I love the fish burger there. For that, they have one thick deep-fried slice of fish fillet coated with bread crumbs and sandwiched in a bun plus all the other condiments. You can also have the fish fillet with savoury rice which is something like nasi minyak or bryani. The nasi lemak and some of the things that they have to offer are also very nice and worth having once in a while. However, this Penang guy that I know was raving on and on about the cheese burger at Sugar Bun…
He insisted it was nicer than McD’s and since he came to Sarawak in January, he had been to Sugar Bun some three or four times. Goodness gracious me! He must love the place a lot! I don’t think I even step into the place once in a year!
Well, the cheese burger comes without the egg, so you will have to pay a bit extra if you would like to have one in it. As it is, if you go for the value meal – the cheese burger minus the egg plus a drink, will cost you around RM4.70.
Personally, I think I prefer McD’s Double Cheese or Big Mac but I would always remove the gherkin inside. I don’t fancy the taste of the pickled slices, I’m afraid. As for this one at the Sugar Bun, I find the beef patty in it very thin and shrunken, so I could hardly taste it. All in all, it certainly did not turn me on. I must say that I did not find it that great, I’m afraid.
Well, I am not comparing the burger to those available at the other fast food joints as we do not have them here but all things considered, I still feel that the best burger I have ever had (not including the humongous and more expensive one I had at Hard Rock KL) would be the one from the roadside stall in Bandar Sri Aman…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 