Friday, October 11, 2024 — Regular readers (all three of you) will recall that I crowned burger-chan as my top hamburger restaurant in all of Houston and the Greater Houston area last year, and my opinion hasn’t changed.
I’d eat there weekly if I had the willpower to not pile their delicious sandwiches as high as possible with toppings—not to mention my OCD-driven desire to knock as many different places off my Houston burger list as I can — but that’s a me-problem, not theirs.
Almost exactly a year ago I asked owners Diane and Willet Feng if they would ever consider adding a bleu cheese option, as it has become my favorite fromage accoutrement. Diane initially seemed less than enthused by the idea, but Willet was game. And here we are, one year later, as burger-chan introduced a very limited edition Bleu Cheese Burger this week.
While I tried my best to adhere to the base structure engineered by Willet, me being me I couldn’t resist making a few modifications. Larry’s burger-chan Bleu Cheese Burger (or as my inner monologue refers to it, The Bleusical Box 😁) consisted of the following: two five-oz patties, bleu cheese and mozzarella, bacon, sautéed onions, lettuce, tomato, raw onion, habañero vinegar pickled pear, soy serrano peppers, pickled jalapeños, and 1,000 island dressing on their classic brioche bun.
Absolutely, unbelievably delicious. Cooked to perfection, burger-chan uses 100% halal ground chuck for their patties, and incorporates a distinctive minimalist salt and pepper seasoning with a garlic confit, browned butter, worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, and shiitake mushroom glaze. This concoction threw my salivary glands into overdrive and may well have been the tastiest thing I’ve eaten all year.
When your favorite burger spot creates a limited edition burger by special request—and the burger, is naturally, an absolute home run—well, that’s the stuff that dreams are made of.
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