Remember the hubbub last year when Burger King Japan introduced the its black burger with black squid ink sauce and black cheese? The Kuro burger, as it was called, was a roaring success, igniting a world-wide fad for ink-and-charcoal-tasting culinary fare. Ha! Just kidding. It was an abomination.
“The basic problem with the Kuro Burger was a patty that tasted like it was made mostly of pepper, and an infusion of bamboo charcoal that had nothing to offer but its color,” says a Gawker writer who actually traveled to Japan to try it.
The AKA Red Samurai burger will have none of those problems, however: “What you’re seeing here is a bun and cheese colored with tomato powder, not coal, and a miso-based sauce flavored with doubanjiang—a spicy, fermented red pepper sauce found mostly in Szechuan food. Burger King’s press release claims it’s ‘spicy enough to get angry.'”
Yummy?
I’d try it.
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