MONSTER BURGER!!! Tokyo, Japan

One day we decided to take the trip to Odaiba, Tokyo's man made island. This place is way out there and is pretty much an example of what happened in Tokyo during the good times in its economic history. 

The buildings gives a good indication of this considering that they are some of the craziest and outlandish architectural designs - gigantic balls, inverted pyramids and so forth.

Odaiba is also home to theme parks such as Muscle Park, the Toyota History Museum and Display Showroom (where you can take an computerised car for a spin) and a number of outlet malls. After walking around Odaiba all day and checking out the Toyota museum we stumbled through Muscle Park and found the MONSTER BURGER!

This was pretty much the coolest burger ever in terms of fast food. I mean come on - MONSTER BURGER!!!!! We decided to give the burger a go, it would be considered pretty un-Australian not to. 

The burger comes in a cool package - the Monster Box. Also accompanied with a little mini Monster Burger cardboard cut out toy with a launcher you assemble and use to vault the cutout over the tower.

Now the burger itself is pretty big. Consisting of 3 parts - A chicken burger, a bacon burger and a beef burger with bacon. Pretty hard to eat in one go so splitting it up is the strategy to pursue. As a meal set it cost us 1,250 YEN.

Taste-wise, it was nothing spectacular. We opted not to get the teriyaki sauce with it - didn't think it would go well with the tart flavour of japanese mayonaise. The best part was the fried chicken fillet, it was indeed very crispy and has the right amount of spice. The burger section was not the best, the combination of tomato sauce and mayo caused the bread to go soggy. After all the walking around in Odaiba it was still pretty hard to get through. As difficult it is to eat (and finish) how can you say no to such a quirky creation? Only in Japan! If only we had time to try out the mega burger from lotteria...