How they do burgers in other places.
November 4, 2008travelerfolio.com’s post on Ramly Burgers!
From my recent meanderings on the net I found that Malaysia has Ramly burgers. It’s still a burger I know not what meat is used but its wrapped in egg and other stuff before being served just like any normal burger.
I find this innovative in the sense that you treat the burger like omelette, you throw in a hodgepodge of other ingredients and whip it into something good. I honestly can’t say the chances of having ramly burgers here in the Philippines. I think it will be good as a novelty item for a few months but we have to carve out a niche for it immediately. We’re so used to just meat, cheese and some onions but not to having a mishmash of goods come together in between two buns.
I want to do something like that. To go around the world capturing different images of meals that I had at that particular place. It is not the monuments or the panoramas that actually capture the essence of a foreign nation. In my opinion it is the food that accurately draws out the culture of the people. Food not only shows you the various cultural influences the area has, i.e. if its chinese, japanese, arab or what, it also shows how these various influences are taken in and made into their own. Food is not for mere sustenance any more, nor is it art. It is an entire story of being human told in a mouthful.
