Settle for less…

That night when we went to the Borneo Cultural Festival at the town square, I had to park my car behind this building…

…and walk all the way there. Yes, that’s the supermarket but the lights seemed to have gone out partially so you only get to see one word but not the next one.

A long time ago, a friend of mine did tell me about the burger stall..

…here, praising it and their own homemade patties to the skies and if I remember correctly, I did drop by once or twice but failed to grab hold of any to try for the simple reason that it was not open. Perhaps I was too early – I do not bother to venture out at night much and when I do, it would be to go for dinner by the end of which I would be too full to stop by here for the burgers.

This is the missus…

– I think the hubby, Zainal…

…said that her name is Baby or something like that. I could not really remember him but he could recognise me when he saw me. He used to run a stall here and here…and yes, I did enjoy what was served at those places very much. However, he told me that they no longer run those stalls there as in the case of the first one, the place had been taken over by somebody else whereas the latter had closed down already.

The beef burger is RM5.00 each, RM6.00 with an egg and RM9.00 for their double beef and RM10.00 for the double plus an egg. I would not settle for less and went for the double beef special (RM12.00) to see what that was like. These were their homemade patties…

…and to start off, in between the toasted bun, they had lettuce, tomato slices, fried onions and ketchup…

Yes! Yes! I could not refrain from pointing out that they should not be using those polystyrene containers and the guy said that he also had plastic that he could use instead though to me, that would be something like getting caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. I hinted that they could just use paper instead – that would come in handy, wrapped around the burger while eating it so one would not get one’s hands dirty and it would be good to use the oiled or waxed or whatever brown ones that some use to tapao their nasi kerabu or nasi minyak or whatever nasi at their stalls. That type would be able to withstand the wet sauces from the burger or whatever else much better than ordinary paper.

Anyway, back to the making of the burger, they added a slice of cheddar cheese, a bit of black pepper sauce and what looked like mayonnaise…

…except that it wasn’t. The guy told me that it was “Cheesey”.

Then came the egg and brown sauce/gravy…

– lots of it, followed by the two beef patties and even a sausage. It certainly was a tight squeeze trying to close that thing as there was so much piled up in the burger.

They were out of lamb that night or I would have loved to buy one as well to try. I did not want the chicken but they told me that they do not use patties for that – instead they will use the meat, obviously well-marinated…

…and cook it in the ring on the hot plate to come out with a circular piece to go in between the bun.

I did not eat mine on the spot and only had it when I got home that night, sharing with everybody else in the house. The girls loved it – I guess they are more into such things than old fogies like me but yes, I did think the patties were very nice indeed though I did not like the bun they used – either the ones from that particular bakery were not all that great, sort of mushy or it got that way from all the squeezing in the process of getting everything into the box. Other than that, I thought there was too much sauce, four altogether, if I counted correctly and I can’t say it was a winning combination. I would prefer just one or to the most, two but maybe there are people who like it that way, I wouldn’t know.

For your information, you can pre-order their foot-wide giant burger (RM25.00) a day ahead (as they need to pre-order the bun for their use) should you be thus inclined. As for me, I probably would stop by again should I be passing by or in the vicinity again for the lamb…and seeing that they do it quite differently, maybe I should try the chicken as well.