Zark's Burger: An Ultimate Burger Experience

Burgers.

Eeeeeekkk…

Jump-packed with calories and for the healthy-living-slim-fit-persons whose top priority is to cut calorie count as high as possible or even banishing the word ‘calorie’ on their dictionary forever, burgers, perhaps tops their ‘The Forbidden Food’ list.

Who can’t blame them? Since average burgers contain 266 calorie count… it definitely adds an extra inch on that well-sculpted waist of yours…

Since I don’t belong to that group, I just eat whatever I want, sometimes a little over the bad side other times a little over the good side; I didn’t even think twice when my friends decided to eat along Katipunan. We decided to check Zark’s place, a dwelling abode for burger fanatics who doesn’t give a f*&%'s care about the calorie content the food they offer.

It was actually introduced to us by our friend whom just last Saturday went there with his family. The place offers an American atmosphere with NBA games being played on muted TV, American rock bands playing over the stereo almost drowning the chatter of fancied customers, basketball and baseball memorabilia on frames displayed over the walls.

They have a wide selection of burgers from Minor League to Major League that includes French fries, another sinful food (such a sinful combination!). I ordered Bourbon Burger, a mushroom cheeseburger topped with their very own bourbon barbecue sauce, which I don’t particularly enjoy. Yet, the burger itself is enough to satisfy me, a quarter pound with lettuce, cheese, onion, tomato and bacon and with a complete selection of additives in every table you don’t have to ask for some, like ketchup, mayo and mustard. It’s so big I almost didn't finish it.

They even have a challenge for ultimate burger eaters. 

Introducing, the Jawbreaker.

A 1.5-pound cheeseburger with Spam, 5 inches in height and 4 inches in width, with fries included in a matter of just 5 minutes. Finish it, and walk out the place not spending a cent, but unable to do so means paying 250 pesos.

Another  is much scarier, the Tombstone.

It is a 10 inch, 2-pound burger to be finished in 10 minutes. Unable to do so means paying 500 pesos.

Survivors will be included on their Wall of Fame and a free shirt will be given to them.

So for not-so-health-conscious out there Zark’s Burger is worth checking out. And to add more fun, bring someone who would challenge either of the two challenges and cheer him/her on top of your lungs.

They also offer a selection of sandwiches, desserts, rice starters and ribs and steak. Located along 318 Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City.

‘Ber’e we go again!

I woke up this morning at about 5:45, an unusual thing for me since I usually wake up at around 8am. After the tossing and turning in a futile attempt to go back to the sweetness that sleep offers, I gave up and went downstairs, surf the net for a while and from jumping from one site to another, decided to cook our breakfast since it’s a already a quarter before seven and from any time people will go down and look for food (it’s an unwritten rule in our house that whoever wake up first will cook our breakfast, that’s why I usually wake at 8  J ). I opened the refrigerator to look for food that could still be reheated and saw a pan which had been there for ages and throw the contents away. That’s when I feel it, and everything comes to place…

Just to be sure I look over the calendar and that’s it. It’s the first of September.

It’s the start of the famous “ber” months. J J J

Maybe that is why I woke up 2 hours earlier than my usual wake up time as if saying,  “Giddy-up Thea! What you feel is not a typical morning- dew frostiness it’s the Ber frost! Go outside and feel it!” And yes, something is different; the cold is iciness that nips my skin in small stings that my skin feels whenever touched by the holiday wind. My skin craves for it as it brings back a surge of memories from my childhood back in La Union. Holiday memories from my childhood, that is. The excitement of exchanging gifts (you might never know what to receive) and the Christmas vacation are just some of it.

But it’s not the just the unusual chill that reminds me of Christmas, because somebody in our neighborhood plays the song Give Love on Christmas Day at this early date. That, I guess, is the biggest contributor why I thought of Christmas this early. And somebody shouts outside greeting someone “Good morning, Merry Christmas!” Both of them just laugh, the person said also the same thing and added “Happy New Year too!” I can’t help but smile with them.

There are still 116 days before Christmas but I know a lot of people already think about the holidays now. Especially with the entry of the first ber month, in which to us Filipinos is one of the reminders of this holiday. Christmas is just around the corner but still is ages away. There are three more ‘ber’ months to do what we need to do to fully enjoy the festivities that this much anticipated season awaits us.

So before thinking about the holidays and devotedly praying and wishing that if possible it could come faster, I might as well do what is needed to be done now.

116 days from now... :)