163: Luxury lunch series: day 4

Today I only worked in the morning and I have called for sick leave in the afternoon.

After having a normal lunch with colleagues in Wanchai, I went to CWB and hang for a while. When I arrived at Windsor House, I saw the shop which won the King of Hamburger award in the King of Catering Awards 2008. It's "Freshness Burger".

Freshness Burger comes from Japan and the first shop in HK is in Windsor House. I was there at about 3pm. There were only a few people inside and I guess it's because the lunch hour has just been over and there was no people as mo liu as me to hang around there at that time. I looked at the menu and the most prices tend to be expensive. I like to try new things and I decided to try whether it is really a King of Hamburger.

Those shown in the menu are typical burgers like beef burger, cheese burger and fish burger, etc, and I think these are quite "normal" but are more expensive than McD, then why not go to McD? Suddenly I saw a colourful blackboard near the cashier and there is a special burger called "Salmon Burger". Then I ordered the Salmon Burger at once and it is $28. Quite expensive indeed, but really want to try.

All burgers of Freshness Burger are made after orders are placed, so they are really fresh. The cashier said the Salmon Burger needs 5 min serving time and she gave me a tall number plate for my order.

My Salmon Burger was finally served and it was packed in a triangular white paper bag which was folded up in the shape of the burger and sticked with a yellow sticker with the word "Special", quite funny, haha.......

Opened the bag, the burger is not very large and size is similar to those of McD. As Salmon Burger is an off-menu special, there is no photo of the burger and I imagined that it was a burger with vegetables, onion and salmon as these ingredients somehow signify freshness. The burger turned out to have onion but have no vegetables, but the taste was very good. The meat inside was essentially a mixture of salmon, beef and tomato and was very rich in taste. And since it was made to order, the whole burger including the bread was quite hot and the bread was very soft. All in all, the whole thing was enjoyable and really wanna it to be bigger.

No photo of the Salmon Burger was taken because there was not many people in the shop and the staff could clearly saw what I was doing, so do have a try when you have this mood!

Menu @official website of Freshness Burger: http://www.freshnessburger.co.jp/freshnessburger/menu/index.html