absolutelyBangkok archive · Food & Drink
Originally published Oct. 13, 2007
A burger is not necessarily a burger.
This is the lesson you’re about to make when paying a visit to MOS Burger — Japanese Fine Burger & Coffee.
And you ever doubted the Japanese were perfectionists?
One of many delights at MOS: Not one burger, not a single French fries, is pre-prepared. It’s all made fresh.
Or let me ask you this way: Have you never ever returned French fries at a, let’s say, McDonald’s? I do it all the time. Until I get the crispy ones.
You won’t have to waste that kind of energy at MOS — an acronym for “Mountain, Ocean and Sun.” An expression, says MOS, of love for people and nature. And food that makes you happy.
MOS is a surprising proof that there can be fine dining with no knives and forks.
You wanna lick those napkins clean. Is that a sauté white wine sauce gently flowing over the Seafood Kakiage Rice Burger?
And if you haven’t had a MOS Fish Burger yet — go. Reinvent your whole attitude toward fish burgers.
Not that their fish burger is big and juicy, it’s rather subtle and, yes, harmonic. The freshly chopped onions in the tartar mayonnaise add to the perfect, soft crunch.
If they’d just added a slice or two of gherkins. I’d be camping out there.
It goes without saying, MOS’s burgers are not your rustic steakhouse’s heavy output with loads of onions, pickles, mustard and a slice of sharp cheddar cheese on a toasted bun.
MOS’s burgers are Japanese first of all. Therefore more sublime.
Recently, near our table, a guy seemed to be in deep meditation while caressing his Teriyaki Chicken Burger quietly.
And there he went, ordering another one.
And that’s about the only negative at MOS: Sometimes there are queues. Actually, most of the time there are queues. Even longer queues. Because those burgers — forget about MOS’s hot dogs — are good.
And you don’t wait at the cashier for your order. You pay. You get a number. You put the number on your table. And you get your BURGERS — don’t only eat one — delivered to your table.
In a fast food restaurant.
Can you believe those Japanese? Seriously, who doesn’t love them.
Did I mention? I do.
You’ll find MOS at Central World and new branches at Paragon and Central Chidlom.
Or prefer sandwiches? Read our Bangkok Sandwich Bible.
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