Gordon Eats

The first time I ever had this dish was when I was in elementary school. It was a simple and fast dish to get, particularly useful since after lunch on Sundays I had to go to piano lessons. I think that’s where my love for cha siew was born. I knew what cha siew was way way way before I knew what roast pork was (I still kinda get confused). Wing Wong (original name) has my favorite cha siew. When it’s a mix of fat and lean meat it tastes perfect.

I think after all these years it’s still a dependable dish at Wing Wong (and probably at Big Wong). It’s a very simple dish where they just chop up some roast pork and throw it with some white rice on a dish. Something you might find missing are vegetables. Sure some other restaurants add vegetables but I don’t need vegetables. I don’t mind it but I can do very well without. You’ll also see the green stuff in the upper left. That’s gerng chung/chung yern (can’t get that second phonetic right, I use the first one more often). It’s essentially oil, minced up scallion and ginger, and salt. It’s great for those lean pieces or white rice. Hey, I can even eat it by itself (I don’t do it too often).

[Hmm, this post should've went up yesterday. Oh well.]

Well another expensive good burger. So before going into meat of the post I want to explain that I haven’t really been a fan of burgers from since I was a kid. Which combined with the fact I don’t like soda makes me more weird, foreign, or healthy. I’d prefer think healthy. Anyway the reason I’ve probably disliked burgers is because the entire breadth of my experience with burgers have been with fast food. Yes even the the widely praised In-N-Out franchise.  AGH! STOP YELLING AT ME I’M WILLING TO GIVE IN-N-OUT ANOTHER CHANCE! I was only a teen back then and a more picky eater than I am now. So that’s my burger backstory. I hope you can somewhat understand where I’m coming from forgive me for being a burger n00b.

Wednesday I had lunch with friends from college at the Wall Street Burger Shoppe. I’ve missed seeing them in person and I’ve wanted to check this burger place out so it was a good opportunity. I initially heard about this place from a post on NYCnosh. The $4 burger seemed pretty cheap especially in that area. But alas they have raised their prices some time ago. The “Shoppe Burger” is now $6 and is the burger I got. According to the menu it’s a “char-grilled beef burger with cheese, lettuce, tomato and Shoppe sauce.”

I kinda expected the burger to be a little bigger. The burger was nice and moist and I didn’t really feel the need to add any ketchup. A similarity that I’ve found with this burger patty and the one from that Antique Cafe is that they taste like steamed ground beef. My reference for steamed ground beef is a homecooked dish my parents have made that’s not dry and does not have fat in it. (Hmm, I should learn how to cook that dish.) So yeah it tasted like that. I’m not sure what else to say but that it was good burger. I’m just not sure it’s worth $6 (that in the picture is all you get, fries and a drink are extra).

Upon heading to work I bumped into my coworkers and we decided to get soup at Brooklyn Bagel (beware: music on site). There wasn’t much selection at the time we were there, an Indian soup and Minestrone (I think). I got the minestrone and you also get a mini bagel; I got a plain.

The soup was ok. I liked the bagel. I hadn’t had a bagel in a while and it gave me something to chew on while working.

So after reading Herman’s post about Antique Cafe’s cheeseburger being the best burger he’s ever eaten I was intrigued since I work a stores down. On Thursday I decided to try it out.

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