So Burpple had a 1-for-1 offer on the Shabu Shabu Burger at Wildfire Chicken & Burger's Savourworld outlet.
Did someone say 1-for-1 offer?
I'm there.
If you've never heard of Savourworld, like me, it's a fairly new place with F&B outlets, located in the Science Park at Kent Ridge. I'm all for more food options in the West. :P So I'm glad to have discovered this place.
Wildfire has both indoor and outdoor (sheltered) seating. I always like al fresco seating in the cooler evening weather. But I have to say these are some of the most badly designed benches I've ever seen. The gap between the bottom of the table and the top of the bench is actually quite narrow that it's pretty hard to get in and out and I hit myself against the bottom of the table a couple of times when trying to get out or when trying to adjust my legs.
Wildfire has another outlet at 313@Somerset which I've never been to before. And it seems they have different menus. So this is the one at Savourworld when I was there a few days ago.
Food
There's no service charge here and it's all self-serve. Not complaining at all!!! Much appreciated by cheapo me. So you order and pay at the cashier and then you get a buzzer which will vibrate when your food is ready. I don't mind at all if I don't need to pay more money. :)
We got the Shabu-Shabu burger because that's what the 1-for-1 promotion is for. Not complaining.
The burger comes with thinly sliced beef in marinated (supposedly Yakiniku) sauce, Shimeiji mushrooms, caramelised onions, with some sneaky chilli padi, sandwiched with two beautifully soft and sweet Brioche buns. And not forgetting a token piece of lettuce leaf.
Is it weird to say that buns were my favourite part of this burger? This burger is served with a generous helping of sauce, and the way the sauce seeps into the bun, wow. You know the glorious feeling of soaking digestive biscuits into milo and then eating the almost-soft-but-still-hard-biscuit? That feeling. Like when a macaron has been resting in the fridge for a day already and the buttercream filling has seeped into the macaron shell creating this layer of liminality. It is no longer the macaron shell and no longer the filling. Just like that. The sauce has seeped into the bun, beautifully flavouring the bun, the savoury taste of the meat balancing the sweetness of the brioche bun. You know, I would just order a basket of these buns and a pot of this sauce, and dip my buns into the sauce the way I dip biscuits into milo. Am I getting carried away?
Can you see that in-between layer, where the sauce has seeped into the bread, that the bread has lost its original quality of sweet wholesome brioche breadyness, and the sauce has lost its liquidy form and possessed the bread?
The meat itself was well. It was okay. But the sauce was 200% salty and completely killed the burger in my opinion. This burger has great potential. The sauce tasted great. (More Korean Bulgogi than Japanese Yakiniku). But it needed either less sauce or a less salty sauce. The whole burger, it's just bathing in the sauce.
I did like everything else about the burger though, except the token lettuce and the overpowering sauce. The onions were nicely caramelised, and I liked the kick of chilli padi (you can't see it because it's hidden stealthily in the meat to ambush you when you least expect it). The token lettuce became so soggy though that it didn't add any crunch or freshness to the burger like it should.
This burger is like the overambitious kid that runs another round around the running track for the 2.4km test but then in the end fails the test because no one cares about the extra round. This burger has good intentions, and doesn't mean to offend. But perhaps it's still the opening weeks for this outlet, and they are still struggling to get things into balance.
Oh yeah, we also ordered a side of the Siracha Chicken Pops. There's not much to say about it except that it's fried chicken and siracha sauce. So simple that you can do this at home, but nobody does. Which is why we're here. And also would make great beer food. The chicken is fried to perfection, marinated without being overpowering, chicken is still soft and tender. No complaints really.
If you like Siracha........................................ I don't.
Pricing
So the Shabu-Shabu burger without the 1-for-1 costs $12 (before GST, no service charge). Would I buy it? Yes. Yes, if they sorted out the problem of the overwhelmingly salty sauce. I can overlook the token lettuce. Really everyone has a token lettuce problem. For what it is, $12 is a fair price for a burger like this. Look, I'll pay to dip the buns in a bucket of the sauce okay.
I don't care for the Siracha Chicken Pops at $9. This pricing is just for drunk hungry people. Or semi-drunk hungry people. Who no longer have control over their wallets. $9 is enough to make me just fry this at home and be a lonely child with no friends to drink with.
I wasn't drunk. I was just hungry.
Wildfire Chicken & Burger
Savourworld, #01-17
2 Science Park Dr, Singapore 118222
Nearest MRT: Kent Ridge (Circle Line)
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