French onion soup inspired burgers from Shake Shack

Current limited time flavour from Shake Shack.

In retrospect, doubling the meat kinda detracted from the flavour of those onions. Without the usual American cheese, I also realised that there's actually not much salt on those patties. 😮

The "French onion" flavour was more apparent in their shroom burger. 

Garlic parmesan fries has the cheese sprinkled on and some garlic aioli thingy on the side. These were pretty forgettable if you asked me.

Labobo with extra patty in sesame bagel from Two Men Bagel House

Labobo's the recent flavour of the month at Two Men Bagel House ( 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六, 十七, 十八, 十九, 二十, 二十一, 二十二, 二十三, 二十四, 二十五, 二十六, 二十七, 二十八, 二十九, 三十) featuring beef patties from BurgerLabo.

Love how the dill pickled onions and apple mostarda help cut though the hefty patties with the tangy sweetness.

Hunan grilled chilli pidan chicken burger from Shiok Burger

I was intrigued by the grilled chilli pidan chicken burger from Shiok Burger. Sadly, it turned out that the burger looked little like the picture they used. I expected better so now I know better than to expect better from them. 🙄 *cues rumination on the need for law against deliberate false advertising*

The century egg had texture like fish cake. Odd. 🤔 They were also tinier than what the pictures suggested. Not nearly enough to go round as well.

The product shot featured some intense green looking sauce. What we got was something that had a bit of green chilli in mostly mayo. Kinda disappointing.

Revisiting Suukee Coffee

Let's start this entry with a date and a rant. We were here 24 Jan 2026 in the morning grabbing breakfast.

Not a fortnight back, there were social media posts about Suukee Coffee's CNY limit time items. Like their orh nee bak kua toast and orange kopi o which I was kinda looking forward to. And the sambal carbonara chee cheong fun. They were out of the orh nee bak kua toast today and CNY is still 24 days away.

The CNY promo started more than a month from the actual event and they ran out of bak kua in two weeks? 🤔 Laughably, I even see the unimaginatively over-abused word 'viral' used on them. 

From my lens...

• they suffer conflicting information on their opening hours
• depend on "crowdsourcing" to share their menu online instead of providing their own
• aren't exact responsive when you message them
• it would be nice if they'd indicated somewhere that some things are lunch only instead of needing us to find out from the ordering kiosk

Some priorities just aren't there.

End of rant.

That orange kopi o, didn't expect them to serve them hot. Nice.

Love the matcha orh nee toast. Nice green tea flavour with the creaminess from the yam puree.

OG orh nee toast also not bad. It's the one you can taste the yam the most.

Decent spam omelette toast...spam's kinda small here.

What's great about eggs here (at least for me) was that they crack them for you. Just like Ya Kun. But the eggs we got today were watery. So unlike Ya Kun, they don't discard the poorly done ones.

One week later......

Managed to get their orh nee bak kua toast this time round. I like the sweet smoky flavour from the bak kua that came through even though that meant that the orh nee was mostly relegated to just a creamy texture in the background.

Matcha butter toast was not bad. Wished the butter was bigger/more distributed.

Finally got to try this sambal carbonara chee cheong fun. First thought that came to mind was the lao gan ma chee cheong fun from Surrey Hills. That one was better. This didn't taste as nuanced and packed less heat though I wouldn't mind coming back for them. No it didn't taste anything like carbonara.

Got a curry chicken kolo mee. The curry needed salt. From this, one could surmise that Suukee either i) had no idea what they were serving ii) are poor judges of whether food was delicious. Or perhaps both.

There was just about enough for the noodles to soak them up. Those tau pok in the curry might have been thrown in at the last minute because they were dry-ish inside and did not absorb the curry at all. The rendition of curry chicken kolo mee from Traditional Sarawak Kolo Mee beats this hands down.

Orange kopi o ice's not bad.

Mutton French loaf toastie from Jiakali

I noticed the French loaf toastie on their menu the last time we were here and came back to try them. Curried mutton, slaw and melted cheese sandwiched in French loaf. The flavour of the curry was dominant and because of that curry, I could only taste a little bit of the slaw and almost nothing of the cheese despite the portions. The gooey texture was there though.

If I had to describe, this one felt almost like some sort of pulled lamb sandwich. Those chunks of mutton in it were tender. 

M&T, Guoco Tower

I've been curious about M&T(#01-12 Guoco Tower, 5 Wallich Street, tel : +65 8948 9242). I've mixed feelings about the food. What we had felt like it came from a kitchen that's been given instructions/recipes to cook rather than being one that has experience with French food.

Goat cheese salad was not bad. Properly tossed, sweet cherry tomatoes and all. My gripe was that the goat cheese tasted weak.

There's a croque au bleu which is a croque monsieur made with Comté and Fourme d'Ambert. The lack of punch (from the lack of quantity) from the latter was kinda disappointing.

Grassfed beef burger with Fourme d'Ambert was also disappointing. Patty's kinda dense, lean and was not particularly beefy tasting. Fries were mostly hollow...like they're shells of actual fries. 

Not much of the Fourme d'Ambert in it as well. We've had better French blue cheese burgers.

'Kevin' in plain bagel from Two Men Bagel House

December special 'Kevin' from Two Men Bagel House ( 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六, 十七, 十八, 十九, 二十, 二十一, 二十二, 二十三, 二十四, 二十五, 二十六, 二十七, 二十八, 二十九). I know I mentioned MYOB the last time but the monthly special gave me a pass on that.

Their product shot looked a lot better though. Tasted the ham, roast beef, rockets, cranberry jelly, pistachio sage crumble. Pretty Christmas-y. I know the cheddar is buried in the melange of flavours and I'm not getting any of the whipped truffle butter at all.

Pretty sure I didn't get any truffle butter in there.

Angus beef burger with bacon and peanut butter from Burger King in Taipei

I mentioned previously about peanut butter in burgers being a Taiwanese thing. Here's another. This from Burger King. Apparently, KFC has a peanut butter chicken burger thingy here too.

Tasted like how I imagined it would. I actually kinda like the creamy sweet saltiness.

Chubby Burger (恰彼漢堡), Keelung Road @ Xinyi District, Taipei

Chubby Burger (No. 165, Section 1, Keelung Road, Xinyi District, Taipei, tel : +886 2 2768 6060) came by way of recommendation. It's all smash burgers on the menu with a variety of toppings. Burger's kinda similar to what one can get from Shake Shack or BurgerLabo. Wouldn't mind coming back if I had the chance.

PBB Chubby with two smashed beef patties, cheddar, bacon, grilled onions and peanut butter. Not bad. Seems like peanut butter in burgers is a Taiwanese thing. Will not be the first time I'm seeing them.

Chubby Staff Special with smashed beef patty, hash brown, Swiss cheese, Chubby cheese dip, ham, pickles and aioli. This was good. Savoury and cheesy.

Fries were kinda like those from McD's.

Cinnamon apple fried pie. Not like McD's. Drier fillings but has a good cinnamon flavour.

Pretty decent banana chocolate milkshake.

Selfish Burger (自私漢堡), Zhuangjing Road @ Xinyi District, Taipei

Selfish Burger (No. 180 Zhuangjing Road, Xinyi District, Taipei, tel : +886 2 2345 0825) is in the game for burgers that are fun. Aside from one classic burger on their menu, most of the rest are more...progressive/experimentative and flavour forward. Not so much for purists. But what do I know.

There's a Smoky Cocoa burger for their fall/winter. Beef patty, bacon, caramelized onions, caramelized bananas, cocoa spread of sorts and rockets. Chocolate's assertive with this one, countered by a fruitiness from the caramelised onions. And then bananas, bacon and beef. Rockets fell by the wayside. I think it's not bad, interesting even.

Blue cheese burger. Blue cheese sauce, rockets and balsamic vinegar. I don't know if the intention was to keep the blue cheese intensity moderated. I mean, it's there but I personally feel more presence would be nice. 

Fried chicken with cream cheese and crushed honeycomb. That and a horizontal cut slice of apple beneath. The flavour combination worked. I liked this. I could come back for this. That fried chicken was outstanding.

There're options to upgrade burgers into a combo meals that comes with a side and a drink. 有點饿 (a little hungry) includes fries while 超級饿 (super hungry) tops those fries with onion rings and a fried chicken wing.

Fish sticks were much nicer than the name suggested. Those are real fingers of real fish meat, some with skin on still.

Their brown sugar whiskey milk shake was nicer than appearances suggest.