Comments on: Crazy for a hamburger http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/ The good life in Bangkok Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11-RC2 by: ralfyboy http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-27265 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:13:23 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-27265 check out: http://www.ricequeendiary.com/best-burgers-in-bangkok.html If yoy still read these comments on this old blog topic... I'm ready for my Elvis Burger Mr. De Mille check out:

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]]> by: Sathorn Farang http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19883 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:20:25 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19883 Mikes Burgers a complete let downw, Dick's burgers fine to chew on and the view of the Bonny masseurs sharpens the appetite. Yummy on both counts. Mikes Burgers a complete let downw, Dick’s burgers fine to chew on and the view of the Bonny masseurs sharpens the appetite. Yummy on both counts.

]]> by: Yraen http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19692 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:38:07 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19692 I know this will sound daft, but ..... when I want some westernised (?) food, I head for one of the Sizzler restaurants that are scattered all over ... the one in CP Tower gets my regular business, together with those in Mahboonkrong and Siam Tower. Lunch at Four Seasons is also recommended but not too regularly :)) Cheers. I know this will sound daft, but …..
when I want some westernised (?) food, I head for one of the Sizzler restaurants that are scattered all over … the one in CP Tower gets my regular business, together with those in Mahboonkrong and Siam Tower.

Lunch at Four Seasons is also recommended but not too regularly :) )

Cheers.

]]> by: Herman zee German http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19524 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:13:35 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19524 @SameSame: Everyone does like white sauce ;-) If you want diy recipes, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonara @SameSame:
Everyone does like white sauce ;-)
If you want diy recipes, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonara

]]> by: jaafar http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19520 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:44:54 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19520 Mike's. Mike's is an operation which began in Chiang Mai and is now spreading south to the Big Mango. In Chiang Mai, there are no problems, EXCEPT with one franchisee on Nimmanhemin who made a lot of people ill with his cheese-steaks. It seems to me that Mike's is basically a sound operation, which is likely to have start-up problems with new franchisees. I understand the craving for farang food, but wanting microwave meatloaf with mac-and-cheese seems to be pushing it a bit. (1) You can buy Kraft Mac-and-Cheese in many places [Kraft Dinner, the Aussies call it.] (2) Meatloaf? You have to be kidding me. Put some pork loin in the oven for 50 minutes -- cheaper and better. Of course, there is always yummy Thai food. Up here in Chiang Mai, we can get kaeng phak kaat and other wonderful dishes. Oh, and more about macaroni and cheese. How do you make it? I mean, cooking the pasta is really easy, but how do you get the sauce? I spent years wondering, and then finally figured it out: you make a basic White Sauce (flour, milk, and butter?) -- and grate the cheese you like. When the sauce is nice and thick, pour in the grated cheese, stir, and pour it over your pasta. With the right cheese, it is a mile better than Kraft's Dinner. :-) Mike’s.

Mike’s is an operation which began in Chiang Mai and is now spreading south to the Big Mango.

In Chiang Mai, there are no problems, EXCEPT with one franchisee on Nimmanhemin who made a lot of people ill with his cheese-steaks. It seems to me that Mike’s is basically a sound operation, which is likely to have start-up problems with new franchisees.

I understand the craving for farang food, but wanting microwave meatloaf with mac-and-cheese seems to be pushing it a bit. (1) You can buy Kraft Mac-and-Cheese in many places [Kraft Dinner, the Aussies call it.] (2) Meatloaf? You have to be kidding me. Put some pork loin in the oven for 50 minutes — cheaper and better.

Of course, there is always yummy Thai food. Up here in Chiang Mai, we can get kaeng phak kaat and other wonderful dishes.

Oh, and more about macaroni and cheese. How do you make it? I mean, cooking the pasta is really easy, but how do you get the sauce? I spent years wondering, and then finally figured it out: you make a basic White Sauce (flour, milk, and butter?) — and grate the cheese you like. When the sauce is nice and thick, pour in the grated cheese, stir, and pour it over your pasta. With the right cheese, it is a mile better than Kraft’s Dinner. :-)

]]> by: SameSame http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19490 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:17:48 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19490 Ground beef is more dangerous than cut beef, because the bacteria is on the meat surface. With ground beef the surface of the little bits is then inside the burger, but on a steak the outside is always the outside and comes in contact with the heating surface. So burgers should only be eaten if they have no pink at all in the center (and certainly no red), whereas a medium steak will be less likely to give you trouble. Also some people/places mix an egg with the ground beef, usually when also mixing in breadcrumbs, to make the whole thing stick together well. It stretches the beef and makes it taste better too. You definitely want that egg cooked beyond runny. A burger that is mushy in the middle isn't done, its dangerous. Now I expect almost everyone knows all that, because I know sooooo little about cooking. So I also vote for the George Foreman solution. Or Wok-a-burger, whatever. Still this whole theme of the unavailability of half decent western food is very discouraging; I doubt I could be happy on a 100% Thai diet. Are there any decent Italian restaurants in BKK? Ones that serve pasta in white sauces not just pizza or spaghetti in red sauce? I can't cook anything that complicated myself. Can you buy western-style frozen microwaveable dinners? meatloaf with macaroni and cheese maybe? Ground beef is more dangerous than cut beef, because the bacteria is on the meat surface. With ground beef the surface of the little bits is then inside the burger, but on a steak the outside is always the outside and comes in contact with the heating surface. So burgers should only be eaten if they have no pink at all in the center (and certainly no red), whereas a medium steak will be less likely to give you trouble.

Also some people/places mix an egg with the ground beef, usually when also mixing in breadcrumbs, to make the whole thing stick together well. It stretches the beef and makes it taste better too. You definitely want that egg cooked beyond runny.

A burger that is mushy in the middle isn’t done, its dangerous.

Now I expect almost everyone knows all that, because I know sooooo little about cooking. So I also vote for the George Foreman solution. Or Wok-a-burger, whatever.

Still this whole theme of the unavailability of half decent western food is very discouraging; I doubt I could be happy on a 100% Thai diet. Are there any decent Italian restaurants in BKK? Ones that serve pasta in white sauces not just pizza or spaghetti in red sauce? I can’t cook anything that complicated myself.

Can you buy western-style frozen microwaveable dinners? meatloaf with macaroni and cheese maybe?

]]> by: Ken http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19473 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:46:25 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19473 I think you need to stick to the "Tube Steaks" they usually plump when you warm them up, and are never under "cooked". I think you need to stick to the “Tube Steaks” they usually plump when you warm them up, and are never under “cooked”.

]]> by: Anonymous http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19436 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:49:08 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19436 YUCK indeed!!! YUCK indeed!!!

]]> by: Silom Farang http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19420 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:20:34 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19420 An under-cooked burger is not brown like the burger in the photo, but a pale grey, and it tastes raw. Yuck. An under-cooked burger is not brown like the burger in the photo, but a pale grey, and it tastes raw. Yuck.

]]> by: Happi http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19417 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:03:11 +0000 http://gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/crazy-for-a-hamburger/#comment-19417 I do understand yoru quest for safe food. I dread the uncooked egges thais put on all food. I like them but suspect they are quite hazarddous. Salmonella is unpleasant I hear. I don't eat burgers, but I am curious as to how an undercooked burger looks like to you? I do understand yoru quest for safe food. I dread the uncooked egges thais put on all food. I like them but suspect they are quite hazarddous. Salmonella is unpleasant I hear.

I don’t eat burgers, but I am curious as to how an undercooked burger looks like to you?

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