Bears…

I saw some people over in the peninsula blogging about this…

…but I never did bother to read to see what they actually were. I just assumed they were some kind of mantao (steamed buns) with the imprint of the bear paw on each of them, some kind of a gimmick to draw the crowd.

Then I heard that somebody had opened an outlet at a megamall here and recently, a friend shared a photo of it on Facebook but he never said anything about it, what it was…but he did say it was worth a try. It so happened that when my girl came back to town last Friday, she was at the supermarket at that megamall with her mum, shopping for her rations for the week ahead and before she was done, it started to rain really heavily so she called me to tell me that they would come home later when the rain had eased.

I asked her to buy home one of those bear paws for me to try and that was what she did…

She said that it was chicken – they did not seem to have fish anymore – and since it was my no-meat Friday, I just chucked it in the fridge and the very next morning, I heated it in the oven for my breakfast. Oh no!!! It turned into something like bread or a bun…

…but thankfully, it was very nice. I liked how it had a nice crusty top but now, I would not know exactly what it would be like originally.

As it turned out, it was quintessentially a burger…

…and it had chicken slices inside…

…not patty plus a bit of lettuce and what seemed like cheese to me…

…and some kind of dressing, probably honey mustard.

It was nice, that much I would say but when I asked my girl how much it was, I almost died!!! That thing cost over RM12.00 for just one of it!!! I said that she should not have bought it since it was so expensive but she said it was all right – at least, I would get to try it…and according to her, there were quite a number of people there eating. Good grief!!! People must be really rich to be able to afford that!

Ok, so I’ve tried it and ok, it was nice but I would not think it was anything exceptional that I would reserve for some very special occasion to indulge in and pamper myself with – the bottom line is…it is what it is, just a burger.