Can the Cheese Burger Don be part of Japan’s beefy meal royalty?
On the subject of beef, there’s no extra broadly beloved dish in Japan than the beef bowl, or gyudon, because it’s referred to as in Japanese. Over on the opposite aspect of the Pacific, America’s flagship beefy meal is the hamburger, and by affiliation its advanced type, the cheeseburger.
Now gyudon restaurant chain Matusya is arranging for a gathering of east and west with its latest creation the Cheeseburger Bowl/Cheese Burger Don.
This fusion menu merchandise made its debut on November 12 at choose Matsuya places, and fortunately considered one of them, the Shinjuku Sanchome department in downtown Tokyo, occurs to be very near SoraNews24 headquarters. So when lunchtime rolled round, we headed over to attempt it for ourselves.
The regular-size Cheese Burger Don we ordered is pried at 850 yen (US$5.70), however there’s additionally a extra-large model for 950. Staring on the high of the stack, there’s a fried egg, a typical topping for deluxe burgers in Japan.
Beneath that’s the cheese…
…adopted by the hamburger patty…
…tomato sauce (taking part in the position of a hamburger’s ketchup)…
…and, lastly, greens and mayo, with a mattress of rice on the very backside.
In different phrases, that is actually what you’d get for those who took a cheeseburger, eliminated the highest and backside half of the bun, after which put every little thing else, nonetheless in a stack, on high of a bowl of white rice. Actually, we’re glad Matsuya went the straightforward route right here. It’s simply concerning the truest potential manifestation of the concept of a cheeseburger rice bowl, and we’d have been disenchanted in the event that they’d gotten too cute or intelligent by attempting so as to add merely a contact of cheeseburger essence as a substitute. They name it the Cheese Burger Don, and there’s no manner you would accuse them of not delivering on the promise that title makes.
So how is it to eat? Based on our reporter P.Ok. Sanjun, who dealt with taste-testing duties, superior!
Matsuya has beforehand proven they know what they’re doing in the case of making hamburger patties, as they’ve had a hamburger steak set meal on their menu for years. However whereas their hamburger steak units include extra closely flavored sauces, the Cheese Burger Don’s sauces and seasonings are balanced in a manner that lets the meat flavors shine by way of extra strongly. Specifically, P.Ok. was impressed by the tomato sauce, which is totally different from the one utilized in Matsuya’s pre-existing tomato sauce hamburger steak set. For the Cheese Burger Don, the tomato sauce has noticeable tart notes, however they work to intensify the meaty flavors. The patty additionally has an attractive texture, with the meat floor to simply the appropriate diploma of coarseness.
So sure, the Cheese Burger Don is a harmonious assembly of Japanese and American takes on how greatest to make use of beef. A full listing of Matsuya places the place it’s at present accessible for a restricted time could be discovered right here, and for Tokyo contains the Shibua Dogenzaka-ue and Shinjuku Nishiguchi branches, however P.Ok. is hoping the Cheese Burger Don turns into a large enough hit for Matsuya to broaden its availability to all places.
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