You may have noticed the little strip of photos in the left-hand column over there. Recently, we recognized the logo of MOS Burger in one of them and clicked through to the photo-sharing site Flickr, from which the feed originates.
MOS Burger is a Japanese chain that cooks up some tasty little sandwiches. Their signature burger, from what I remember when I visited the Land of the Rising Sun a couple years ago, has a special mildly spicy tomato-based MOS sauce liberally slathered on (top). It is delicious.
MOS, which stands for Mountain Ocean Sun, serves its burgers in origami-like waxed wrappers that are more akin to bags or envelopes than the square sheets of paper we're used to here in the States. By the time you're finished with the sandwich, enough of the sauce has usually found its way into the closed-end of the wrapper that it can be used as a piquant dipping sauce for the fries—a trick we learned from our friend Justin, who was living in Japan at the time. It's a tip we now pass on to you, if you happen to live there and are reading this blog, or if you plan to visit sometime.
ARGH! It's too bad that MOS Burger is gone. The burgers here were quite unique and different tasting. At least they are still around in Asia. Did they ever open a store in NYC?
Yeah. But it's weird, because their site still lists Hawaiian locations. Unfortunately, it's in Japanese and I never learned kanji.
I don't think there's any way they could open in New York, and the time for that was probably in the '80s during their economic bubble. Even if MOS had the gumption to open here, they probably couldn't do it for the same reason In-N-Out couldn't: NYC is too dirty and the people too grumpy to replicate a properly run MOS or In-N-Out.
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You may have noticed the little strip of photos in the left-hand column over there. Recently, we recognized the logo of MOS Burger in one of them and clicked through to the photo-sharing site Flickr, from which the feed originates.
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Hi Adam,
ARGH! It's too bad that MOS Burger is gone. The burgers here were quite unique and different tasting. At least they are still around in Asia. Did they ever open a store in NYC?
Hamburger Reid at 2:12AM on 06/18/05
Yeah. But it's weird, because their site still lists Hawaiian locations. Unfortunately, it's in Japanese and I never learned kanji.
I don't think there's any way they could open in New York, and the time for that was probably in the '80s during their economic bubble. Even if MOS had the gumption to open here, they probably couldn't do it for the same reason In-N-Out couldn't: NYC is too dirty and the people too grumpy to replicate a properly run MOS or In-N-Out.
Adam Kuban at 3:00PM on 06/18/05