Whereas everybody else is rolling out tsukimi burgers, Dom Dom slips in a nashi burger.
Dom Dom is Japan’s oldest hamburger chain, and certainly one of its smaller ones too. So that you may count on them to play it secure with their menu, providing simply essentially the most fundamental of burgers, however actually they do exactly the other, by no means failing to shock us with their improvements.
We have been particularly startled, although, when Dom Dom introduced its latest sandwich: a pear burger.
Yep, these are huge, thick chunks of Japanese pear, or nashi, because the fruit known as in Japanese, on prime of a pair of patties.
Since we came upon concerning the Nashi Double Teriyaki Burger, we’ve been making an attempt to logically deduce simply how loopy the idea is. On one hand, pineapple has established itself as a viable hamburger element, so placing fruit in a burger isn’t totally out of the query. On the identical time, with neither hamburgers nor pears being latest arrivals to the culinary scene, you’d suppose that if this mix was going to work, somebody would have tried it by now, proper?
However hey, possibly that is only a case of nobody pondering as far exterior the field as Dom Dom does frequently, or of not having the center to carry this daring thought to market. Following its preliminary launch at only one Dom Dom department in Miyagi Prefecture, the response from clients was so constructive that the entire chain’s branches at the moment are serving the Nashi Double Teriyaki Burger, which is priced at 770 yen (US$5.30) and went on sale August 31, proper concerning the time that pears are coming into season in Japan.
These huge items of pear within the poster picture aren’t simply advertising and marketing magic, both. Unwrapping our Nashi Double Teriyaki Burger, we noticed that we had a lot fruit that it was able to spill out from the buns.
▼ Notice that this isn’t sloppy preparation by the Dom Dom workers, as in Japan it’s normally the customized to maintain the burger contained in the wrapper as you eat it, so nothing spills out.
Along with two teriyaki-glazed patties and mayo, there’s additionally lettuce, however the Nashi Double Teriyaki Burger forgoes issues like tomato, onions, or pickles.
Okay, let’s dig in!
You know the way generally whenever you strive a brand new meals for the primary time, it would take your mind a second or two to determine whether or not you prefer it or not? That didn’t occur right here, as our taste-testing reporter Kohei was instantly blown away by simply how good the pear burger tastes!
Should you’ve by no means had a Japanese pear, they’re crisper, sweeter, and juicier than Western pears, nearly nearer to an apple, however with none hint of tartness. It’s a sweetness with a clear end, and it made for a really satisfying mixture with the stickier sweetness and salty notes of the teriyaki sauce. Even the mayo performed good with the pear and teriyaki flavors, which we hadn’t been totally anticipating.
Additionally wonderful: the feel. The light crunch of the pear, with a burst of moisture as you chunk by, combined with the juiciness of the tender patties for an unprecedented mouthfeel. We suspect that the rationale Dom Dom makes use of two patties for the Nashi Double Teriyaki Burger is that Japanese pears are usually fairly huge, and only one patty won’t have been sufficient to supply the correct counterbalance to their crispness.
Now that he’s tried it, Kohei would go as far as to say that’s placing pear in a burger not solely works, however works even higher than pineapple.
The one draw back is that the Nashi Double Teriyaki Burger will solely be out there for a restricted, however unspecified, period of time. There’s nonetheless time to strive it for your self, although, and do you have to miss the prospect, you possibly can console your self with Japan’s different seasonal hamburger, the tsukimi burger.
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