A couple of months back a couple of radio hosts (Money and Petros on PMS on XTRA570) were arguing over which burger was the best: Fatburger or In-N-Out. For my money it's In-N-Out, no contest; well-done with extra crispy grilled onions. Mmmm.
Of course, having grown up in the Philippines, these two burger joints pale in comparison to what I remember. There were several local joints competing for the title of "best burger":
1. Tropical Hut Hamburger, the first fast food burger I ever had. Heavenly stuff. My favorite was the Hawaiian, of which Jollibee's Aloha burger was a pale imitation.
2. Jollibee. Decent. I only really started liking this stuff when I got older. It was always Chicken Joy or nothing.
3. Burger Machine. The burger that never sleeps! The burger's flavored with exhaust fumes. Maybe that's why it was so tasty. Say, do these stalls still exist? Last time I was in RP (last year) I didn't see a single one.
4. Mushroom Burger. The one in Tagaytay. I still have fond memories of stopping here everytime my dad and I went fishing in Caliraya. This one time we ran into the Bad Bananas (Christopher de Leon, Jay Ilagan and Edgar Mortiz, along with Michael de Mesa) riding their bikes. My first brush with celebrity.
Not sure why Pinoy burgers taste so good. I've always thought they added pork along with the beef to make it more flavorful; or was it the worms that the burger patties were allegedly made of? In any case, I sure could use a Pinoy burger right now.
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Burger Machine's far from dead. There's one a few blocks away from our house. Several more in a 5 km radius. Cheap, tasty. Filling. And you get to sit with all those tricycle drivers. Wouldn't trade it for the quarter pounders in the world!
my old officemate went to jollibee after working overtime and asked for a yumburger. they were out of burgers (what the?), but had a few aloha burgers on the rack ready to go. he figured he'd just get the aloha burger, take out the pineapple, and enjoy. so he took it, paid, drove away. at a stoplight, he reached into the bag, opened up the sandwich and found nothing but 2 slices of bread and a slice of pineapple!
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