Bangkok’s Probably Best Burgers
A burger is not necessarily a burger.
This is the lesson you’re about to make when paying a visit to MOS Burger – Japanese Fine Burger & Coffee.
And you ever doubted the Japanese were perfectionists?
One of many delights at MOS: Not one burger, not a single French fries, is pre-prepared. It’s all made fresh.
Or let me ask you this way: Have you never ever returned French fries at a, let’s say, McDonald’s? I do it all the time. Until I get the crispy ones.
You won’t have to waste that kind of energy at MOS – an acronym for “Mountain, Ocean and Sun.” An expression, says MOS, of love for people and nature. And food that makes you happy.
MOS is a surprising proof that there can be fine dining with no knives and forks.
You wanna lick those napkins clean. Is that a sauté white wine sauce gently flowing over the Seafood Kakiage Rice Burger?
And if you haven’t had a MOS Fish Burger yet – go. Reinvent your whole attitude towards fish burgers.
Not that their fish burger is big and juicy, it’s rather subtle and, yes, harmonic. The freshly chopped onions in the tartar mayonnaise add to the perfect, soft crunch.
If they’d just added a slice or two of gherkins. I’d be camping out there.
It goes without saying, MOS’s burgers are not your rustic steakhouse’s heavy output with loads of onions, pickles, mustard and a slice of sharp cheddar cheese on a toasted bun.
MOS’s burgers are Japanese first of all. Therefore more sublime.
Recently, near our table, a guy seemed to be in deep meditation while caressing his Teriyaki Chicken Burger quietly.
And there he went, ordering another one.
And that’s about the only negative at MOS: Sometimes there are queues. Actually, most of the time there are queues. Even longer queues. Because those burgers – forget about MOS’s hot dogs – are good.
And you don’t wait at the cashier for your order. You pay. You get a number. You put the number on your table. And you get your BURGERS – don’t only eat one – delivered to your table.
In a fast food restaurant.
Can you believe those Japanese? Seriously, who doesn’t love them.
Did I mention? I do.
You’ll find MOS at Central World and new branches at Paragon and Central Chidlom.
Or prefer sandwiches? Read our Bangkok Sandwich Bible.
Nice website – keep up the good work.
We went to try MOS Burger. Was really awesome.
Good news: 6pm on a Friday and guess what, no queues!
Central World recently upgraded the shopping mall, with splendid architecture throughout this immense building. Maybe one of the biggest shopping malls in Asia. Skytrain station Chidlom.
Central World HAD to upgrade. How many prime shopping malls around?
Paragon, Maboonkrong, Gaysorn Plaza, Siam & Discovery Center, etc. And their own Central Chidlom!
Quite quiet in most places right now, except Paragon.
The new sky walk from Chidlom to Central World is a breeze though. Lofty walking over traffic nightmares.
BangkokDan
Sublime … you really do have no idea about food & fast food also, yes of course you would return your fries at McDonald’s and frequent a place like that to get good fries & food, how do you put that @#%^, add what ever you like into your body, sauce on a sandwich???
MOS burgers made fresh from … crap, where else would you suggest that is mediocre, have you been to France or Italy and had real bread …
It is available here also … so disappointing … sublime …
Hmm looks like a nice burger, but was it really necessary to have Thom Yorke wailing all over the video? Sounded more like a wake and was a bit sinister.
To be fair though even McDoogles is better in Asia.
Thanks for sharing with us Dan.
Sorry, but MOS Burger is crap, cost me about 150 baht including a microdrink for a teriyaki chicken burger. Avoid it in Paragon, unless you want to eat a mediocre burger in a very unrelaxing environment with hundreds of people filing past and staring at you. Teriyaki chicken burger tasted artificial, quite tasty (admittedly) but very small and not satisfying the hunger in any way. It would be better if it actually contained moss, because at least it would be nutritious. I think the chicken burger must have a lot of fat, because despite its very small size, I had stomach ache afterwards for about 2 hours. The coffee tastes quite good (strong) but was microscopically small. Forget it. For 150 baht you can get a big and filling real-beef burrito stuffed with everything at the Mexican burrito place on the same level in Paragon. MOS Burger = another Japanese rip-off.
The best burger in Thailand is a great Canadian burger place out of British Columbia called Triple O’s. It’s on the top floor of Central World in the supermarket. They import all their ingredients chilled, not frozen. It’s a bit expensive, but good and I love the fries. They even have a veggie burger! Check out the BC Burger.
(BD: Followed your call Ruj and went to Central World. Outch, not cheap, but the veggie set was worth every of the 27,000 satang. The welcoming girl even got me the stuck ketchup out of the bottle and ended the experience with a personally served perfumed tissue. The burger? Astonishingly nice.”
Agreed. MOS Burger is definitely overrated!
Love to try the Canadian burger, but sounds a little far from where I am staying on Sukhumvit.
I am a person who likes cheeseburgers and try them where ever I can find them. MOS won’t see me again, they accidentally got my order wrong and I was able to try a teriyaki chicken also, wrong was acceptable, but not the burger, mushy chicken, fat or skin?
The cheeseburger was smothered in a tomato relish, not a condiment I would have guessed, but one that for me didn’t go with a burger.
French fries were great and I have never taken Mac’s back, anywhere, including Thailand. Maybe I am just lucky, but I have never had any that were not crispy, probably due to the computer programming.
Thailand is a difficult hamburger place.
(BD: Their fries are only not crispy when not freshly fried. Some McDonald’s branches here don’t seem to care about the diffetence.)
The Nana Burger, dispensed late evening onwards from a mobile kitchen in the mouth of NEP, has never failed to impress. Delightful … unlike most other things that live in the Plaza …
The MOS cheeseburger was my absolute favorite hamburger when I worked in northern Japan.
The burger you received looked identical to the picture of the burger on the menu – something that has never happened in the States.
It will be interesting to compare the Thai MOS burger experience to the Japanese.
Over the years I have judiciously avoided spending time in Bangkok so I don’t know if there are any there but my favorite burger in Pattaya is the Hamburger Denmark cheeseburger.
Late night foraging at Hamburger Denmark on the way back to my room reminds me of White Castle runs back in the Midwest.
Bon appetit !
Here is another vote for the stand @ Nana Plaza!
Although not in Bangkok, there is a stand on Soi Bintabaht in Hua Hin that sells burgers late at night. At first, I thought it was a knockoff of Nana Burger, but I was surprised to find it’s actually much better. I think it’s some kind of secret powder I saw them put on the burger, which Nana apparently does not.
One month ago, to the day, I said I think the Soi Bintabaht burger in Hua Hin was better than Nana Burger. Now, after a long reprieve from Nana, I just had the displeasure to try Nana Burger again. I don’t know what happened, but something definitely went downhill in a big way! The formerly delicious Nana Burger is now something like the sausage patty in a McDonald’s McMuffin sandwich. Frankly, I was thinking the whole time I was eating it that it tasted like pork, not beef. What happened here? It was an absolutely awful burger, as in it went from like #1 to the bottom of the barrel. Did they think we wouldn’t notice the switch from a delicious BEEFburger to a pork patty?
I didn’t like MOS Burgers at all. And I’m a guy who loves burgers. Though I’m definitely a burger bitch – McDonalds, Burger King? No way I’m going to eat that crap. Yes, I’d rate the quality of MOS Burgers higher than Mc&BK too, but still not nearly good enough.
The Garage and Dukes are my favorites so far in Bangkok – there’s real beef in those burgers, not the plastic stuff that tastes kind of like beef. Triple O was great too, but they either closed, or I’m too retarded to find the place again.
Wake UP people MOS Burger is not even a real burger …
it’s just like The Pizza Company is not a real pizza.
Triple O’s closed after the Central World fire …
Wish it would be back …