Japan is a country known for trying out flavor combinations that few others would—tomato-flavored white chocolate, anyone?—so it's no surprise Burger King in Japan released the BK Ringo: a burger with lettuce, honey mustard, mayo, and a slice of apple (ringo in Japanese). The Whopper Jr.-sized burger has been available since March and can be yours for ¥240 (about $3).
RocketNews24 went back to Burger King and ordered a Whopper with 1,050 strips of bacon, or ¥7,000 (about $86) worth of bacon. The burger/bacon mountain weighed 2.7 kilograms (about 5.95 pounds), contained roughly 14,300 calories, and took 2 hours to make.
While Burger King in the US promotes new menu items like salads and fruit smoothies, Burger King in Japan is promoting topping your Whopper with 15 bacon strips for ¥100 (about $1.25). The regular price for bacon is ¥60 for three strips.
Today In-N-Out held a one-day pop-up event in Tokyo, similar to In-N-Out's previous pop-ups in Shanghai and Sydney. AHT reader Carl Nordell sent us a recap of the event with photos. Thanks, Carl!
This month Japanese company Kracie released Happy Kitchen Hamburger, a kit that makes miniature burger-flavored snacks just by mixing various powders with water and microwaving them. Unlike the other Happy Kitchen kits that make sweet doughnut and cookies, the result of the hamburger kit is savory, as tasted by Emmymade in Japan in the video above. What does the kit make from water and powders (and included mixing cups)? Fries, patty, buns, cheese, ketchup, and cola. It also comes with a cut-out fries cup, toothpick with a tiny flag, and a label for the cola cup.
Today (or yesterday if you're in Japan) Burger King in Japan released their BK Ringo ("ringo" = apple in Japanese), a Whopper Jr.-sized patty topped with lettuce, honey mustard, mayo, and a quarter-inch slice of grilled apple topped with cinnamon. The price: ¥240 ($2.90) for the burger alone, ¥490 ($5.94) for the value meal. Until March 22, Burger King is including two complimentary BK Chicken Wings with purchase of the BK Ringo.
With a tagline like "Freshness Food, Freshness Serving, Freshness People, Freshness Planet," the 20-year-old Freshness Burger chain from Japan is obviously selling more than just burgers. Buying a Freshness Burger is a not-necessarily-effective-but-makes-you-feel-good-anyway lifestyle choice, like drinking water from the 30%-less-plastic tiny bottles or driving your hybrid SUV to the matinee screening of The Lorax. But let's cut straight to the chase: Does the feel-good choice come with an equally taste-good food? Luckily, there are quite a few menu choices that actually are good at Freshness burger. The burger just doesn't happen to be one of them.
Rice cookers can do more than cook rice; they can cook rice topped with fries, a Big Mac, and chicken nuggets, flavored with ketchup and Coke Zero. That's the basic recipe for RocketNews24's McDonald's Miracle Steamed Rice/McMiracle Rice. While the rice cooks, it steams the fries, Big Mac, and nuggets on top, resulting in some sort of Big Mac donburi.
America may be the home of McDonald's, but Japan is where its hamburgers go to spread their wings and take off into flights of fancy, combining flavors that no American would dare combing, stacking to unusually great heights, dousing themselves in ever-more obscure sauces, and, of course, all coming with a side of genuine smiles and service.
If you've ever wondered what bun-less burgers at McDonald's look like, YouTube user rocketnews24 ordered a bunch of burgers sans buns at McDonald's in Japan to show you the piles of meat, condiments, and toppings in all their...glory.
