Amakara Chicken Burger
Dom Dom’s most popular burger: juicy fried chicken thigh coated in a sweet-and-spicy house glaze. Amakara means sweet and spicy, and the sauce is closer to a Japanese karaage glaze than to American hot sauce, sticky and savoury with gentle heat. Cheap for what it is, and a good place to start.
What’s inside
- fried chicken thigh
- sweet-and-spicy glaze
- sesame bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Amakara Chicken Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares chicken and heat
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McDonald's McSpicy (Copycat) - Shares chicken and heat
KFC Spicy Chicken Sandwich (Copycat) - Shares chicken and heat
KFC Cheetos Chicken Sandwich (Copycat)
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About Dom Dom Hamburger
Dom Dom exists because of a quarrel over one percent. The supermarket giant Daiei planned a joint venture with McDonald’s to bring hamburgers to Japan, but McDonald’s wanted a 50–50 split and Daiei’s founder, Isao Nakauchi, insisted on 51 percent and control. The deal collapsed, so Daiei built its own chain. In February 1970 it opened a burger shop outside its store in Machida, Tokyo, more than a year before McDonald’s opened in Ginza, which makes Dom Dom Japan’s first hamburger chain. The name comes from “dondon”, from the Daiei motto of selling good things “ever more cheaply”; DONDON was already trademarked, so it became DOMDOM. The mascot is an elephant called Domzō-kun.
About thirty restaurants, mostly in shopping-centre food courts around Tokyo, Chiba, Osaka and Okayama, plus one in Taipei.
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