Shake the bun buns!

Burgers are everywhere in Hong Kong. When many of the chain fast-food restaurants are prevailing, people only know burgers from, say, McDonald's. Recently some others came to this city to promote "better burgers" or more US-style burgers, and they include Triple O's and the recently back Burger King. However, the best burgers happen to be in some small shops. One of them is Shake'em Buns.

The small shop is located in Ship Street, right at the street level of J Senses. The shop was renovated like a cowboy age dining place, with wooden chairs and cowboy fonts. I love the board writing "beer is the only reason to wake me up in the afternoon." The menu is very funny too, with all the names of burgers converted into strange terms like "Gang Bang" and "Tokyo Drip". Usually this place is filled with people during weekday lunch time, and thank God today is Saturday, and my friend and I easily got a table by the door side.

Quickly we settled down with our bun choices, and got ready to "shake" them. My "Ivana Vanilla" came first, and it is actually coconut vanilla milkshake with some pineapple inside. Yummy.

"Debbie Does Dallas" was a typical burger with beef and bacon inside. It just looked so juicy!

And my "Hawaii Surfer Girl" arrived on the table. As you can guess right, this is a Hawaii burger, with a slice of pineapple inside, so good!

My friend was completely over his burger and couldn't help but ordered another one for a second organsm. He got a "Tokyo Drip" which had mushrooms inside.

These burgers were exceptionally good. The beef is very thick and juicy, unlike those you got from McDonald's which were just dry and thin. The burgers had a big layer of veggie, and I think that's very important for a tasty burger. Why? Because the meat may not be very juicy, and the bun must be dry, and adding them up will make a burger hard to swallow. The vegetable inside would balance the texture well and also add a fresh layer between the meat and sauces.

Another thing is that each special burger only has one or two features, instead of adding many new "surprises" inside. For example, the Tokyo Drip only has mushrooms as extra, while Hawaii has pineapple. That's it. Some places stuff burgers with many types of things to make them "special" and "amazing", and that just fails. You won't be able to taste anything in the end!

There is no doubt for me to rate this pace as the top burger room in the town. Only here can you enjoy burgers in a fine way, not like stuffing yourself with burgers in 10 minutes at McDonald's. Different, very different. It may not be easy to imagine any "fine" fast food, but try it here at Shake'em Buns. You will change your mind.