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What's the best hamburger you've ever had outside North America?
I have two nominations. One was in Malaysia, but I understand this is actually a Singapore creation. A guy on an outdoor grill fried up a thick patty, and then slices through it and refries it inside out, and a raw egg sizzles over it before serving. They're very expensive in Singapore, where upscale places outduel each other to make them fancy, but the best are the simple affordable street foods in Malaysian towns.
The other is in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which has two competing fast food places on a busy downtown street corner, neither of a foreign franchise.. You know the picture of the Whopper on the menu board at BK? Well, that is what the finished product actually looks like in Bishkek, tall enough to tip over, assembled before your very eyes in the front window, with meat that tastes like beef, gristly mouthfeel and all, for about $1.50.
Hmmm...I just remember bad hamburgers outside of the US. Of course I usually don't go for Hamburgers, sticking to whatever the local food selection is.
That being said, this year I got bad food poisoning at what I suspect was a result of eating at a Shanghai McDonalds (but that was a chicken sandwich...the place wasn't my choice since I was with Chinese coworkers and clients). I do remember having a version of some mystery meat hamburger in India once - it wasn't cow, I suspect it was water buffalo. I've had a few hamburgers I think in Europe, but they can never seem to get it right - usually they don't understand the hamburger bun, it falls apart when holding. They just don't get the American concept of eating with your hands it seems.
Perhaps the best hamburger I had was in Changi airport during a layover, after trekking in Nepal for a couple weeks. I think that was because it was the first beef I had when I was gone so it was more of an appreciation of what I missed rather then the relative tastiness.
Not hamburger exclusively - but the best place for meat (beef, etc) is Brazil by far.
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What's the best hamburger you've ever had outside North America?
I have two nominations. One was in Malaysia, but I understand this is actually a Singapore creation. A guy on an outdoor grill fried up a thick patty, and then slices through it and refries it inside out, and a raw egg sizzles over it before serving. They're very expensive in Singapore, where upscale places outduel each other to make them fancy, but the best are the simple affordable street foods in Malaysian towns.
The other is in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which has two competing fast food places on a busy downtown street corner, neither of a foreign franchise.. You know the picture of the Whopper on the menu board at BK? Well, that is what the finished product actually looks like in Bishkek, tall enough to tip over, assembled before your very eyes in the front window, with meat that tastes like beef, gristly mouthfeel and all, for about $1.50.
This was the first thing that came to my mine when looking at the thread title. Cosigned, ate a few of these in Kuching late at night when everything else was shut down.
You actually looked for a hamburger when traveling overseas? I don't even eat it at home!
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.
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.
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