Rancho Ranchero
The burger Tropical Hut is known for: a beef patty with iceberg lettuce, tomato, cucumber and mayonnaise, topped with a sunny-side-up fried egg, in a big, soft sesame bun. The egg is what makes it, and Filipino reviewers keep saying the patty still tastes the way it did decades ago. Order it as a meal with fries or, more locally, with a side of sweet spaghetti.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Rancho Ranchero yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and ranchThe Fuddruckers Ranch Burger
- Shares beef
The Burger Ball Pit - Shares beef
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beef
Zachariah's Shack Burger
Variations
The Rancho Ranchero, taken somewhere it was never meant to go.Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Rancho Ranchero.- Bembos · beef and egg
SignatureHamburguesa A lo Pobre - Red Robin · beef and egg
SignatureRoyal Red Robin - Giraffas · beef and eggSignatureBrutus
- Dom Dom Hamburger · beef and egg
SignatureOkonomiyaki Burger
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About Tropical Hut
Tropical Hut began in 1962 as a sari-sari store, the tiny neighbourhood shop found on every Filipino street, grew into a grocery and then a supermarket with a coffee shop, and in 1965 was incorporated with a hamburger counter under the name Tropical Hut Hamburger. In 1972 the Mercury Group, owners of the country’s biggest drugstore chain, bought it and opened branches across Metro Manila. It is older than Jollibee (1978) and McDonald’s in the Philippines (1981), and for many people of a certain age it was the first hamburger they ever ate.
About twenty restaurants on Luzon, most of them in Metro Manila, several open around the clock.
Not affiliated with Tropical Hut. Trademarks belong to their owners. The photo shows my home version, not the restaurant’s product.