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Teriyaki Burger

    A Japanese fast-food staple done carefully. The patty is coated in a sweet-savoury house sauce with soy koji added for depth, then served with crisp lettuce and mayonnaise in the sweet pumpkin bun. Sweet sauce, sweet bun and creamy mayo: it is comfort food, and a good way to try the bun.

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    The story

    The teriyaki burger started at MOS Burger, which put it on sale in May 1973, a year after opening, and claims it as the first in the world. To get people to try it, MOS handed out fifty free teriyaki burgers at the school festival of a high school girl who was a regular customer, on her suggestion. By the time Freshness Burger opened its first shop in Tomigaya, Tokyo, in December 1992, teriyaki was already a standard flavour of Japanese burger bars. MOS marked the fiftieth anniversary in 2023 by naming May 15 Teriyaki Burger Day.

    What’s inside

    Make it at home

    There is no copycat of the Teriyaki Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.

    Variations

    The Teriyaki Burger, taken somewhere it was never meant to go.

    Similar burgers at other chains

    Built around the same things as the Teriyaki Burger.

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    About Freshness Burger

    • Japan
    • Since 1992
    • $$

    The first Freshness Burger opened in December 1992 in Tomigaya, a quiet corner of Shibuya in Tokyo. It was pitched as the opposite of a noisy fast-food counter: a burger café where adults could sit down and relax over a coffee, which is still how the company describes itself.

    Around two hundred restaurants, almost all in Japan.

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