coffeeshops.
With the advent of Botak Jones and Astons, the concept of western food in coffeeshops changed dramatically.. until the 2 stores started becoming too commercialized and their food starting tasting like inedible attempts at western food. For starters, my experience with Botak Jones has been met largely with fried/badly grilled food swimming in oil and Astons has always been known as the god-forsaken place to me after my first 3 tries at it proved to me that I was better off with a $2.50 bowl of Bak Chor Mee from the uncle across their stall.
So here comes in De Burg at Block 10 Ghim Moh Road - stall 3 (basically at the coffeeshop across the road from the ever famous Ghim Moh Market). Being the Singaporean I am, you've got to have decent food to convince me that the next time I head to Ghim Moh, I'd ignore the lovely chwee kueh aunty and her kick ass chwee kueh + oily chai poh for your coffeeshop food.. luckily for De Burg, I think I might give it another go again.
Mark's 200g Bacon and Cheese Burger
200g Australian Beef Patty with Crispy Bacon and Melted Cheese, a generous serving of fresh veggies, some sliced purple onions and a little dollop of light mayonnaise. Served with it is a massive serving of salad and fries.
I think this came up to about $15
I thought the burger was pretty decent but I would have preferred a bun which was slightly less toasted because I do not enjoy the burnt, charred, taste of badly grilled burger in my mouth + every time I bit into it and saw the black surface of the bun, all I could think about was how much of a cancer risk this stupid bun was.
I got a 100g Hawaiian Beef Burger
$8 with a generous serving of chunky fries
100g Australian Beef Patty, with a baked pineapple slice coated with melted cheese, a generous hunk of fresh veggies, dollop of light mayonnaise and toasted buns
For me, the pineapple did wonders for the burger - the patty was well grilled but really the saviour of the burger was the juice from the pineapple sliced with made the meat so moist and lovely to bite into. Also, the sweetness and tarty flavouring of the pineapple against the salty cheese and moist patty made the burger quite irresistable all together and I don't recall the burger lasting very long in my hands.
For that matter, I gobbled it up so quickly Mark didn't dare try a bite even though I offered (let's be honest, i wanted to finish the burger all by myself)
Here's something you shouldn't hope to get though - good fries.
Their fries have been over-fried or over-frozen to the extent that they achieve the crispiness of the fry outside but there is no fluffy potato inside when you bite into the fry and all you're greated with is hollowness after a massive crunch from the outer layer of the fry.
Idk about most people but a fry without that moist fluffy potato inside is a complete miss with me and I kinda wished that they had done the world a favour and paired their burger with some fries from long john silvers - frozen and grossly packed with butter but also a million times better than the ones served at De Burg.
On other news.. some things don't change and that includes:
our tendency to dress similarly (Cow's birthday, 2010 - almost a year ago)
October 2009, school lecture
Last semester, lecture at school
today.. note how her bag matches her dress and how my bag matches mine
here's the worst part, this probably doesn't even cover half the times we've walked into each other and realized that our outfits matched
fail.
So here comes in De Burg at Block 10 Ghim Moh Road - stall 3 (basically at the coffeeshop across the road from the ever famous Ghim Moh Market). Being the Singaporean I am, you've got to have decent food to convince me that the next time I head to Ghim Moh, I'd ignore the lovely chwee kueh aunty and her kick ass chwee kueh + oily chai poh for your coffeeshop food.. luckily for De Burg, I think I might give it another go again.
Mark's 200g Bacon and Cheese Burger
200g Australian Beef Patty with Crispy Bacon and Melted Cheese, a generous serving of fresh veggies, some sliced purple onions and a little dollop of light mayonnaise. Served with it is a massive serving of salad and fries.
I think this came up to about $15
I thought the burger was pretty decent but I would have preferred a bun which was slightly less toasted because I do not enjoy the burnt, charred, taste of badly grilled burger in my mouth + every time I bit into it and saw the black surface of the bun, all I could think about was how much of a cancer risk this stupid bun was.
I got a 100g Hawaiian Beef Burger
$8 with a generous serving of chunky fries
100g Australian Beef Patty, with a baked pineapple slice coated with melted cheese, a generous hunk of fresh veggies, dollop of light mayonnaise and toasted buns
For me, the pineapple did wonders for the burger - the patty was well grilled but really the saviour of the burger was the juice from the pineapple sliced with made the meat so moist and lovely to bite into. Also, the sweetness and tarty flavouring of the pineapple against the salty cheese and moist patty made the burger quite irresistable all together and I don't recall the burger lasting very long in my hands.
For that matter, I gobbled it up so quickly Mark didn't dare try a bite even though I offered (let's be honest, i wanted to finish the burger all by myself)
Here's something you shouldn't hope to get though - good fries.
Their fries have been over-fried or over-frozen to the extent that they achieve the crispiness of the fry outside but there is no fluffy potato inside when you bite into the fry and all you're greated with is hollowness after a massive crunch from the outer layer of the fry.
Idk about most people but a fry without that moist fluffy potato inside is a complete miss with me and I kinda wished that they had done the world a favour and paired their burger with some fries from long john silvers - frozen and grossly packed with butter but also a million times better than the ones served at De Burg.
On other news.. some things don't change and that includes:
our tendency to dress similarly (Cow's birthday, 2010 - almost a year ago)
October 2009, school lecture
Last semester, lecture at school
today.. note how her bag matches her dress and how my bag matches mine
here's the worst part, this probably doesn't even cover half the times we've walked into each other and realized that our outfits matched
fail.