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Tobikiri Hamburg Sandwich

    MOS Burger’s top-end line, built on a thick patty of 100 per cent Japanese domestic beef. It is closer to a Japanese hambāgu steak in a bun than to a fast-food burger, juicy and seasoned with care. Pricier than the rest of the menu, and worth it for a proper lunch.

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    The story

    Japan has two separate burger traditions and this one is older. Hanbāgu, the Hamburg steak, arrived during the Meiji era when the country opened to Western cooking, and it settled in as a home and diner dish served on a plate with rice and a brown sauce, no bun anywhere near it. Putting a thick hanbāgu patty of domestic beef between bread is MOS crossing its own streams, and it is why this line is priced and treated as a small steak rather than as fast food.

    What’s inside

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

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    About MOS Burger

    • Japan
    • Since 1972
    • $$

    MOS Burger opened in Tokyo in 1972 with a very un-fast-food idea: cook everything only after it is ordered. The name was later given a meaning, Mountain, Ocean, Sun, and the chain became Japan’s biggest home-grown answer to McDonald’s, now its second-largest burger chain.

    The second-largest burger chain in Japan, with branches across East and Southeast Asia.

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