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| - We happened on this place by pure serendipity. We were out shopping for something else, got hungry, looked around, and there was Bachi Burger. Neither of us eat burgers as part of our regular diet but I had been having a hankering for a burger for couple of week and I jumped at the opportunity.
Boy, did I hit the jackpot! We both ordered their Kiki Burger. This variation includes carmelized bacon (you read right), sweet onion marmelade, sauteed Shitakee, Enohi, and Eryngil mushrooms, Gruyere cheese, and an interesting mix of chopped baby greens including frisee and maybe arugula and baby spinach. They include a garlic chili aoili on the side that adds a nice little heat kick. For the bun, they toast a Taiwanese sweet bread. The hamburger is a flavorful Angus beef. I ordered mine cooked medium.
This is the first burger in memory that I didn't want to slather with ketchup to boost the moistness and the flavor. The Kiki Burger didn't need it and held up until the last bite. The textures enhance the experience. You bite the sweet bun and hit the crispness from the toasting until you encounter chewy bits of the carmelized bacon then the beef patty.
The other burgers offered didn't look as appetizing and the descriptions veered into Asian-influenced wierdness. A burger with kimchee? Maybe another time...
The burger by itself was $10, an incredible value given the inflated prices we'd been paying for food along the Las Vegas Strip. Fries are extra but one burger is more than enough unless you are a glutton or on a weight-gain diet.
I learned from doing a web search that Bachi Burgers is a little Las Vegas phenomenon with about ten locations. The manager told us they are opening their first location outside of Vegas in Los Angeles. Remember the name. If you are in
Vegas, get off the Strip and make this a destination.
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