A Rant about burgers

Several weekends ago, I read a newspaper article about a certain reporter allegedly going to several restaurants to try the best burgers in town. I don't how what kind of test he did or what he was smoking, but he gave the award for the best burger in Singapore to some $45 burger. I don't want to go on a rant here but a $45 burger? Are you kidding me? I mean seriously, are you kidding me? A burger is a burger. You can put Wagu beef, Kobe beef, Kansas City Strip or porterhouse cut beef between 2 slices of bread and call it a burger, you have to be out of your mind. Come on. I have tasted burgers from the capital of burgers - the United States, and I have never heard of such, don't mind me saying this, such idiocy in chefs trying to one up the traditional burgers and make it into a gourmet meal. Its like me trying to upsell the char kway teow by putting in tiger prawns and lobster, special quail egg, marinating the cockles with saffron and special chilli only found in the deep deep jungles of India, plus the noodles beings specially made from rice blessed by Buddha himself and the dark soya sauce used to color the noodles is actually truffles and soy fermented together under the Tuscan sun. This has to be a joke right?

Burgers are meant to be good old minced meat patty slapped between 2 buns of your choice. In fact, the history of the hamburger started with the somebody putting a slice of beef patty between 2 slices of white bread. How good the burger is is not dependent on how much it is. How good the burger has and always been how bad the burger is for you. Come on. Sure, you put in the ketchup and mustard, onions and lettuce. Tomatoes don't do it for me in a burger. Throw in some barbecue sauce and waalaa! A burger! I have had 100s of burger throughout my whole life, from cheap Macdonald ones to the relatively expensive hotel ones, the best ones have always been less than $15 SGD at the most.

In Singapore, Carl Jr's is the best burger out there I think. Its worth the $11. Its friggin huge. I wouldn't recommend it if you were in the United States, but you're in Singapore and there really isn't much of a choice. Furthermore, the article about the burgers never really explained what make s a good burger and how did he decide which restaurant or burger was the better burger. It was a taste test done based on nothing. I mean, did he eat one burger everyday for 2 weeks for lunch? Did he just took a mouthful of the burger everywhere he went? There are so many test variables. And what did he drink with each burger? That's important too!

Seriously folks, this website is not meant to critique the Singapore journalist, that's for other people. All I am saying is that please treat food with more respect than that. Its an article written with not much effort for the pre-supposed idiot reader.