Serious Lamb Burger - New McDonald's burger coming soon

Finally, McDonalds will have a lamb burger on the menu!

Gone are the days of just fish, beef and chicken. The "Serious Lamb  Burger" is out to take the #1 spot.

Sumo Sushi - Auckland City

Sushi is quite a popular choice for the health conscious eater, so I decided I should review the favourite sushi restaurant among the colleagues at work. Sumo Sushi at Albert St.



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Luckily the work team decided to go there for lunch, so off we went at 11.30. Having visited this place numerous times I can assure you it is a local favourite as the place is generally packed with queues, but seeing as we went a bit earlier we were the only ones there. Perfect.

Food Baby 2.0

Firstly, a big thank you to all those who have been viewing the blog. I’ve reached over 3000 views in just a few weeks – far beyond anything I ever thought!

I have a few exciting things planned for the blog over the next couple of weeks (Think a country vs country battle). In light of this I’ve decided to review my marking criteria and make it more detailed and explicit. For example, many of the existing criteria can be broken down into further detail such as Customer Service – Enthusiasm, Speed of order processing, correct order etc. While I have taken these areas into consideration in my existing reviews, it would be a good idea to have it on record as well as a reminder to look for these aspects.

So my question to you as readers is what knowledge do you want to gain from these reviews? What kind of information do you want to discover from this food review blog?

Let me know in the comment section below and I will take these into consideration and create a more detailed marking criterion which will be posted on the site.

Making the perfect burger..

The last couple of posts have featured everybody's favourite fast food item - burgers. This got me thinking, what makes the perfect burger? Quite often over the years we have tried to create the perfect burger at home. I then stumbled upon the following article courtesy of Yahoo, where they share their tips on making the perfect burger at home.

What do you think?

The meat
One of the most important things to remember when buying meat for your burger is that it must contain some fat. Don’t just reach for the leanest beef mince you can find – fat gives flavour and succulence and a very lean burger will dry out and go crumbly.

Big Mac Sauce - Secret Revealed!

So, the Big Mac has to be the most iconic burger in the world. It is the flagship burger of McDonald's Restaurants worldwide.

The burger consists of two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a three part sesame seed bun. The difference between this burger, and others from rival fast food outlets is the sauce.

KFC - Lynfield.. Double Down time!

It was a beautiful Friday afternoon in Auckland today and having nothing to eat since breakfast, a late lunch was very much needed. Having left work early to attend a funeral, I found my way back to Lynfield where this blog began.

I've noticed quite a bit of advertising on Facebook about the Double Down coming back, but with a difference. Previously, you could only order the original recipe chicken fillet. In this "comeback" you can get new grilled or zinger versions.

Being a fast food pro, I already tried the zinger burger fillet in the original Double Down run. It was fantastic, and proceeded to tell everyone I knew before the promotion had run out. Upon hearing that it would appear as a new "flavour" I was ecstatic and was hoping the official Zinger double down would taste as good as my experimental version a kind KFC Balmoral staff member made for me last year.

Sals - Auckland City

I was working late on Thursday due to a big project I'm working on. As luck would have it my mate Michael happened to have a late night conference call. Michael and I are THE fast food experts. Between the two of us, we have probably tried everything on the menu at usual fast food places. During uni, our lunch would would consist of hunger busters + a burger on the side. Of course, if you didn't have the burger on the side you weren't a real man.

Good times.