For me, It's A Bad Burger...
Hello Asean Hive Community
I am still adjusting myself with my current health issue, so expect my writing will be simple and short. And surely you can expect I will only post things about foods only for some days a head.
Today topic was inspired by some content I saw in Tiktok. This was the content:
https://www.tiktok.com/@paulylong/video/7608986431825923341
Sorry if you could not view TikTok correctly but I believe Pauly did not make the youtube short edition for that brand because it was not a good one from his review.
Anyway I know that brand for years, I want to try it. I had some opportunities in the past, but always ended up with other food. So I guess this time I will try to have that one, and see if it is as bad as he said in his TikTok.
There the paper bag from the delivery I ordered. It was written Indonesian Burger, Halal and Low Fat with 100% Australian Beef. To be honest, I did not believe it, how people would use Australian Beef for cheap burger, mix it with local beef?
This was how it looked when the delivery order came. 60.500 rupiah or around 3.5 USD including fries and nugget, came with plastic bag + paper bag. Could you believe it was made from low fat Australian Beef? Hell no!
I tried the fries first. The taste was not great, but they were ok. I would not expect something that outstanding, atleast I believed they were near the level of McDonalds lol.
Now the nugget... I could understand why that influencer said the texture was spongy. The nugget was made from chicken dough, you blend some chicken meat with some flour, making a dough that similar people use to make chicken meatball.
Fries was ok, Nugget was horrible lol.
Now we came to the burger part. I believed they were very generous, or I could say the burger should be very cheap, regarding with that price you get a burger that used a patty and a slice of beef bacon.
I knew that they used a half ass cheese, a liquified one so they could save up a lot for the cost. The taste of the cheese was horrible lol.
And the salad... Pauly was right, they looked very sad lol. I do not wish to talk about it.
Ok bon appétit! I try not to talk bad here. I could only say, I would go for Burger King, they are better. Personally, I would go for McDonalds too rather than this Burger, although this is a very debatable because many Indonesian reviewers said Bangor are great way above McDonalds.
Well that's my opinion anyway based on my experience. You might have different opinion, it's a free world anyway. See you next time
Thank you for coming and reading my post. I live in Jakarta, Ex-Capital City of Indonesia. I used to live by making money online, that's why I like being here, on HIVE, and in #PIMP - (Paper In My Pocket) community. Feel Free to leave any comment below
I'd pass on that burger too. Too bad it wasn't better! I hope you're feeling better, food poising sucks.
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As a fellow neighbour, I actually pay way more attention to the packaging and the receipts. It's funny that I have always been "reading" Bahasa, trying to understand how much it differs from Malaysia.
I recon the packaging mentioned it's Australian beef, and they promote low fat and halal. Maybe the less tasty and cheese sauce is part of the procedure to lowering fatness? It doesn't look too bad after all, but I will take you word for it. I don't know, I'm just saying.
Side note, the receipts shows Pajak, what does that mean when it appear in the receipts? I understand the word is supposed to mean pawn 😅
maybe due to low fat factor, yeah that makes sense. but why would we eat low fat burger with cheese and bacon lol, it kills the purpose instantly. Overall the patty is still on the same level as McD, maybe healthier regarding I am not sure if McD uses real beef.
Pajak is Tax here, so it means the vendor ask me to pay for VAT. The current VAT is 12%, they still charge 10% so they will lose 2% from their price.
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Some interesting fact find with Gemini below:
Qué:
It is fascinating how a single word can drift into two completely different neighborhoods of meaning. In Malaysia, pajak usually brings to mind a pawn shop, while in Indonesia, it’s the word that makes everyone reach for their wallets: tax.
To answer your first question: yes, they are connected, but not in the way you might think. And you hit the bullseye with your Portuguese hunch!
1. The Portuguese Connection
The word pajak is indeed inherited from the Portuguese word pago (payment) or pagar (to pay).
During the 16th century, the Portuguese influence on the Malay language was massive because of their control over Malacca. Both Malaysia and Indonesia (specifically parts of the archipelago like the Moluccas) felt this linguistic impact.
2. Evolution of Meaning
While both started with the core concept of "payment," the word evolved based on the specific systems of administration used in each region.
In Indonesia (Tax)
The Dutch East Indies administration used the word to describe monopolies or farmed-out rights. The government would "lease" the right to collect tolls or sell certain goods (like salt or opium) to private individuals. This "payment for a right" eventually broadened to mean any compulsory payment to the state—hence, Tax.
In Malaysia (Pawn/Lease)
In Malaysia, the term leaned more toward the contractual and collateral side of payment. It referred to "leasing" or "holding" something in exchange for money. Over time, this became hyper-specialized to refer to the Pajak Gadai (Pawn Shop), where you receive a payment in exchange for leaving an item as security.
3. The "False Friend" Trap
This is a classic example of Linguistic Divergence. Because Malaysia was later influenced by British English and Indonesia by the Dutch, their administrative vocabularies grew apart.
It’s a bit ironic, isn’t it? One version involves getting money from a counter, and the other involves giving it to a counter.
Since you're looking into linguistic history, are you interested in other Portuguese loanwords that survived in the region, like kereta or keju?
vocab by vocab, many has gone widely different.
We still use cukai, but more on special tax such as imported luxury tax and alcohol tax. So people here will know if you talk about Cukai, but their mindset will be about some special tax.
In some region here, going to the pajak means we go to market lol. So It's understandable why many still prefer to talk in their local/traditional language instead of Bahasa.
Burger is really delicious to eat. But I like to eat all these foods occasionally, say once or twice a month. But when you go out, French fries are eaten more. But the combination of chicken with flour is fun. I need to know more about how healthy it is even if the fried food is delicious. Thank you. Hope he has a good day.
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That looked like a pretty sad burger. Definitely not the juicy beef patty that I would have expected.
Not too sure about pricing over in Jakarta, but USD3.5 sounds pretty decent for an average normal-ish burger with nuggets and fries though.
with those price, not much differ from McD
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This looks like those burgers that is of super effort and can't be bother to make it nice.
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