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Hey Team,
Burgefuel dropped a new Burger just yesterday, Kung Fu Pork, sounds awesome right? well..
Bit of a Story, there was a party at BF-HQ last night we were planning to head along to and try it out but I doubled booked myself cause I’m useless and we had to stop by a phone launch soon ( stay tuned for a review on the Huawei mate10 soon)
Which rendered us late to the party, Which was somewhat a blessing in disguise. I like to keep my reviews as close to what any joe blogs off the street going for a bite would get, so I woulnd’t have given a review on a burger hand crafted knowing its being reviewed. So we decided to head to the closest burgerfuel which was in Ponsonby and pay our own money to get at this new burger. Truth be told when I found out about this last week I thought it said pulled pork which turns out is actually pork belly, But we’l get to that shortly
Kung Fu Pork Burger
Pork Belly with crispy Crackling
Hoisin Sauce
Grilled Pineapple
Relish
Chilli Aioli
Wholemeal Bun
$15.90 – burger only.
Right so,
As I said I was expecting pulled pork cause I don’t read shit properly when I got pork belly I was surprised. The problem you have with using the belly is its very difficult to bite into and tare away, we both ended up just taking it out and deconstructing our burgers.
Burgers were pretty soggy as we got them, I was very hesitant about pineapple in a burger cause I have a loathing hatred for people that put it on pizza, and ya’l know how I feel about pizza. But ya know what? it actually worked, I didn’t expect it to but it did, the textures and flavours all kinda worked the Hoisin sauce was bomb and i’ll be requesting that on other burgers in the near future.
So surprise aside, I doubt I’d order another one of these, as I say the flavours work but as a burger even with a doofer its all over the place, very soggy and yeah you cant rip the pork in a bite so.. seems a bit pointless, If however it was what I thought and actually pulled pork that had a good flavour and texture ( low n slow you know the go) it would have been very high marks. Unfortunately this idea was great but the execution was lacking.
I guess tho, one redeeming feature is that ain’t no one else in NZ trying what these guys try, not at this level anyway. So it’s gona take a couple Harajuku chickens to get to a Blue velvet, and if you’ve been reading this long enough you know exactly what I mean.
In other news, they do have chop shop chicken back and I’ll tell the truth I’ve had it more than a couple times, its fucking awesome
Until next time!
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