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Flip'em Burgers on the Cheap | Creative Kitchen | Cooking at Home


Before saying anything else, I've got to worry about the quality of my pictures. It does the food absolutely no justice. 

These are not the usual Ramly burger patties which are drier, honestly speaking, but they're mouth-watering all-the-same. We got the frozen patties from Lotus's (no, this is not a sponsored post. I wish); they're affordable and the meat are raw. As in they're still flexible and technically can be mushed around into ground meat for minced stir-fried dishes or shaped into meatballs or anything you want to use them for, including soups. 

We found some burger buns (it's harder to find than you think - where we are at, anyway) from a nearby fruits store. We did not have lettuce (which would have been more perfect) so I decided that sliced tomatoes is just fine. 

After flipping the patties both sides, we slathered on the marjerin on the bottom of the halved buns and just quickly toast the buns butter-side-down

Other ingredients were cheese slices, marjerin (or butter and garlic spread to toast the buns) and whatever sauce you want. It could be tomato sauce, chili sauce, BBQ sauce, and in our case, there was a bit of tobasco sauce added to it...for the kick. 😅

Honestly, it took longer to make it than expected. 

It's Sunday so I was craving some kimchi while the boys wanted some 'don'. So, we headed over to a nearby Japanese restaurant and had some of that. Once in a while, you know. We don't have this very often and kimchi is really expensive in the stores.

I tried my hands on making kimchi myself but....er....it's not easy, takes time of time, practice, unique ingredients and some K-centric ingredients like gochugaru (Korean chili powder), and some prawn paste that cannot be replaced with our local Malaysian stuff. So, I probably won't try it again. 😑

If I can get my hands on those ingredients more affordably, I MIGHT try it again. But for now, not for the foreseeable future. 

I hope you had an amazing weekend and ready to slay this week. 

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