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Tsukimi Mochi Smash Burger

  • 714 kcal

The autumn special: a smashed patty and bacon with an egg cooked in the shop, a piece of fried mochi rice cake, the house teriyaki sauce and tartar. The fried mochi is the twist, crisp outside and chewy inside, and the round egg is the “moon” of the name. Sold only in autumn, and a richer, heavier burger than the regular menu.

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The story

Tsukimi means moon-viewing, the Japanese custom of gathering on the evening of the mid-autumn full moon. It came from the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and was taken up by Heian-era aristocrats, who recited poetry under the moon, and it is still marked with pampas grass, rice dumplings and seasonal foods. In cooking, a whole egg stands in for the moon: tsukimi soba and tsukimi udon are topped with one. Japanese fast-food chains borrowed the idea for their autumn menus, selling fried-egg burgers called tsukimi burgers every September and October.

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First Kitchen opened its first restaurant in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, in September 1977, and for almost forty years belonged to the drinks company Suntory. In 2016 Suntory sold it to Wendy’s Japan, and many branches now trade as Wendy’s First Kitchen. Most of its restaurants are in the Kantō region around Tokyo.

Dozens of restaurants, most of them in and around Tokyo, many branded Wendy’s First Kitchen.

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