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Wow. Traveling around the world and you'e thinking about hamburgers?
I'm not sure about the best hamburger I've had outside the US, but one time in Bangkok I ordered a hamburger at a bar/restaurant and I took one bite and stopped. Whatever was in that hamburger was like nothing I'd ever had in my life. Maybe it was some kind of beef fed on something strange? Maybe it was dog meat? Who knows. I left the hamburger and ate the fries.
Don't know about the "best" hamburger. However I knew I was not in for a delicious treat the time I ordered a hamburger in Belgium and the first thing they did was drop a frozen patty into the deep fat fryer.
You were lucky. In American franchises, they just put frozen patties in a steamer.
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Originally Posted by John7777
Wow. Traveling around the world and you'e thinking about hamburgers?
I'm not sure about the best hamburger I've had outside the US, but one time in Bangkok I ordered a hamburger at a bar/restaurant and I took one bite and stopped. Whatever was in that hamburger was like nothing I'd ever had in my life. Maybe it was some kind of beef fed on something strange? Maybe it was dog meat? Who knows. I left the hamburger and ate the fries.
You remind me of a child who was given a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice and made a face and said "This doesn't taste like orange juice, and what's that lumpy stuff in there?" Maybe that was real beef in your Thai burger, so it "didn't taste like a hamburger".
For the record, I've never been inside a McDonalds nor any other American franchise, in any other country in the world. I think the only place I ever eaten a pizza outside NA was in Colombia, and it was the only place open at that hour.
While I haven't eaten red meat in 15+ years so I can't answer the hamburger question, I can say I'm a big fan of ordering a cheap soda at an American chain in order to get access to a generally clean and well-kept toilet in an area where public restrooms are otherwise scarce.
Have also ordered a fair number of coffees and snacks at Starbucks in the UK because I had won some free Startbucks GCs over here and the SB mobile app let me use them over there, though at I'm sure a horrible exchange rate.
I've had a few burgers outside of North America but the best I've had was in Amman, Jordan. Place was called Fatty Dabs. These are pictures taken by me:
This burger was called the Sunrise. Pretty good.
This was the Chicago:
It had grilled onions on it with mustard, kind of like an imitation of the Maxwell street style food Chicago is known for.
I ended up striking up a conversation with the owner. Some of the guys I went with had heard the owner was from the United States. Come to find out he was from the south side of Chicago! Told him I'm from Chicago. What a small world.
Fries were cut there in front of you and tasted very fresh.
The ones I make myself. I buy minced beef (ground beef) from the butcher's shop, add a bit of seasoning, and grill them.
I always bring home a bottle of barbeque sauce when I holiday in the US, to give them an authentic American taste.
At my neighborhood BK, its a steamer, I asked. (Maybe they lied.) I doubt if it matters if they've been thawed or not. But they sure as hell are not "never frozen".
Wow. Traveling around the world and you'e thinking about hamburgers?
I'm not sure about the best hamburger I've had outside the US, but one time in Bangkok I ordered a hamburger at a bar/restaurant and I took one bite and stopped. Whatever was in that hamburger was like nothing I'd ever had in my life. Maybe it was some kind of beef fed on something strange? Maybe it was dog meat? Who knows. I left the hamburger and ate the fries.
What? When you're overseas for a while, sometimes you want a burger. You ordered one.
I've never ordered a hamburger-like meat patty outside of the US.
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