Last night I decided to dining out for a little “friendship reconstruction” with my friend, I was originally first decided to tryout BurgerRoom at Caroline Hill Road of Causeway Bay, however it was about full house at one little store. Along the same street it’s full of high class little dining out gems, and they’re seem like full of well-known personalities.
Then I decided to tryout another burger spot just a few blocks away, this one actually I wanted to tryout for long: Shake’em Buns (Location). I know about them since they opened their first rest @ Wan Chai’s famous dining spot Star Street.
This is a English-only restaurant and it’s slangs everywhere, like “Doggy-Style” as hot dogs, “Flying Nemo” is fish fillet burger, etc. Looking at their menu is just a headache, when you see it’s full of English and has lots of items to choose.
I’ve ordered the Hot Chick (Chicken burger) combo and my friend has ordered Cushin’ for the Pushin’ (Cheddar Cheese beef patty burger) combo, plus a pint of Hoegaarden beer for share out. We seated at the bar and able to look at their stage – kitchen when their personalities prepare meals freshly: here I mean everything is cooked when needed, the bread is toasted, fries being fried and meat is being cooked when order comes in. The environment is a bit dark but it’s acceptable, and I love to hear people chatter around makes meet feels like the world’s movin’.
So this is a dinner for “friendship reconstruction”, as you know, it’s so much thing happened this week, that’s complicated and has made many people worried about. And I know that’s not good for everyone as we need to meet daily, so why not just drop those complicated matters away and look forward for a better future? That’s why I decide to have this rendezvous to clear up the blockage around me and my friend.
We had spoken out for the truth and just said the word we wanted to say – we’re both really wanted to befriends again and just like we’re before everything happened. Besides this matter, we have also chattered about other people around my SBUX store, and my attitude for work and towards a better service.
Back to the food, those burgers were just came in, those burger looked like huge and the fries are golden brown and crisp. I decided to have the fries first to avoid they’re softened if I eat them later. It tasted v.good coz’ they’re really cooked freshly.
Now move on to the burger, mine is the Hot Chick, it’s a chicken fillet burger. The bread is crisp on the outside, soft in the inside and it’s warm. This point is very important coz’ when you eat a burger, this is the first-point-of-contact at your mouth and tongue. If you feel the bread is cold, this will immediately piss you off and you’ll get the feeling that the burger is not freshly made (that is made for a long time); the bread is toasted adequately made you to have some degree of texture in your mouth. If it’s toasted to much, you’ll feel hard to chew and that’s feel like hard to “start with your burger”. Now my teeth has passed the bread, and went deeper into the chicken fillet. This is Tandoori chicken and it’s marinaded to the taste I liked most. It’s adequately grilled – keeping juicy inside but it’s crisp outside. The chicken’s juice even kept dripping out when I having the burger.
Besides the bread and the chicken, it’s just normal fillings like lettuce slices and tomatoes – there’s one point I wanted to note, I think the tomatoes were a bit over cooked and were easily being “minced”.
For the beer, I know a pint-glass of beer is huge for me, however the Hoegaarden beer is actually taste not so strong in terms of alcohol, it has a strong taste of wheat and light bodied, I think it’s great to drink while having Shake’em Buns freshly-fried-fries. If it’s price can be a bit cheaper ($49 a pint, $39 ½ pint), I’m definitely having one more pint!!!
So there you go, after checking out a number of burger outlets in HK, Shake’em Buns I think is being on the top of my list, it’s the best one so far for me and I will definitely come back again!
For reference, the following is my burger outlet rating list:
- Shake’em Buns @ Causeway Bay
- Triple O’s @ Exchange Square, Central
- Monster Burger @ Central
- Pro-burger @ Central
- Burger King
- …
- …
- …
- McDonald’s
- MOS Burger
Next burger stop for me would be Gourmet Burger Union @ Central, lookin’ forward for it!
