{"id":6278,"date":"2012-10-24T21:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T01:44:34","slug":"mos-tobikiri-hamburger-sandwich-atsugiri-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/24\/mos-tobikiri-hamburger-sandwich-atsugiri-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"MOS Tobikiri Hamburger Sandwich “Atsugiri Bacon”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MOS crafts some really good Japanese-style hamburgers.\u00c2\u00a0 They aren’t modified from a Western recipie to conform to Japanese tastes: They are built from the ground up for domestic consumption – that’s probably why they bombed when they opened two stores in Honolulu decades ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The Tobikiri hamburger is no exception to the domestic tastes rule.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s not to say that if you aren’t Japanese, you won’t like this burger – it just isn’t the plain salty charred\u00c2\u00a0meat slab hidden beneath ketchup and mustard that you are used to.\u00c2\u00a0 The patty is made from a mix of beef and pork (aibiki<\/em>) and is topped with a thick slice of Hokkaido-produced bacon and sauteed onions with a bacon-shoyu sauce.\u00c2\u00a0 They pride themselves on domestic sourcing, so the beef, pork, bacon, and onions are all domestic.\u00c2\u00a0 This is reflected in the price, since the burger alone\u00c2\u00a0is 420-yen (around $5.38 USD).\u00c2\u00a0 If you go to their website, they have a breakdown for the sourcing of ingredients on the product page.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The burger is very good.\u00c2\u00a0 It is easily one of their better seasonal burgers.\u00c2\u00a0 The sweet onions, sauce, and bacon balance the savory\u00c2\u00a0meat and tangy coarse-ground mustard.\u00c2\u00a0 If I had to compartmentalize the flavor, with the sweet\/soy thing going on, it would be teriyaki<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re thinking the thick, sickly-sweet, nearly-black gloppy gravyish crap they put on burgers back home, that’s not the teriyaki I’m talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d easily buy this again.\u00c2\u00a0 Size is another matter – although the diameter is much smaller than a standard USDM Mc Donalds hamburger, the patty is thicker, so the mass of the meat is closer to that of a Quarter Pounder.\u00c2\u00a0 I had it as a “salad set” which included a nice green salad and a drink.\u00c2\u00a0 This added 350-yen (around $4.49 USD), bringing the grand total to 770-yen (around $9.87 USD).\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, that is expensive for a somewhat small burger meal, but like I’ve said about MOS in the past – it’s defeintely the quality that brings me back time and again.<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/p>\n

Three-and-a-half out of four domestically-grown monkeys<\/p>\n

770-yen for the set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOS crafts some really good Japanese-style hamburgers.\u00c2\u00a0 They aren’t modified from a Western recipie to conform to Japanese tastes: They are built from the ground up for domestic consumption – that’s probably why they bombed when they opened two stores in Honolulu decades ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The Tobikiri hamburger is no exception to the domestic tastes rule.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,8,13,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1Dg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}