These awesome photos were taken today, at myBurgerLab in Seapark, Petaling Jaya. Funny. The plan was for us to meet there at 5PM, where Yvonne will drive her car and YeanSee will be the passenger, me myself will drive another car from Bangi, and Darryl will come slighly later at 5.30 pm, driving his own car from Puncak Alam. It turned out that the first two cars, (Yvonne and I) was lost in Petaling Jaya area. While we were supposed to book the seats first and wait for Darryl according to the 5 pm plan, failed as we were waiting for Darryl for another reason:- to lead us to myBurgerLab in Seapark! LOL We were lost. Totally lost. We finally found the restaurant at 6 pm. That is an hour later according to plan.
I had no idea where I was. I know the way to get there but to find Seapark is very tricky. My earlier research using Google Maps and Wikipedia failed, but it had never failed me before. My first landmark to get there, which was a roundabout, had recently been demolished and replaced with traffic lights. No wonder I got lost. I was searching for the roundabout! And after I couldn't trace the roundabout, everything seems not to make sense at all. Later, I hopped into Darryl's car, with Yvonne and Yeansee following through, browsed through iPad's map and we finally found myBurgerLab.
The location is not in downtown PJ. It's not even near Jaya One. It's somewhere in the neighbourhood, so:-
"If you want some, come get some" - John Cena
When we arrived the queue was long, but not as long as what I saw in myBurgerLab's photo in Facebook. In that photo the queue was dragged till the outside of the tiny restaurant. Today, the queue remained inside but the the restaurant is packed with hungry people. The atmosphere of the restaurant is not like any other restaurant. From outside I see the atmosphere resembles an open house. I also get the vision of the moment 5 minutes before Ramadhan's break fasting in restaurant, where everybody wants a seat! Back to the queue, if I'm not mistaken it took us 10 minutes to place our orders.
We were given index number or angka giliran just like any banks / post office. Our number was 72. The current number was 44. The waiting time was about half an hour. Then it's time to look for empty seats. It's not easy. It's so jammed pack with people, so imagine for yourself. Thank god a staff came in handy when he offered us to look for seats.
It's the drooling part now! The burgersssss. YeanSee ordered Spicy Hawaii chicken burger, while Yvonne ordered Chicken A+ burger. I took the recommendation of YeanSee by ordering 'The Beautiful Mess'. Darryl ordered "Kick In The Face" to the power of 2 burger. We decided to order 4 different burgers so we can try all four and decide on the one with the best taste. We ranked "Kick in the Face" the best because the patty is very juicy. *drooling now*. The Beautiful Mess came in second, A+ burger was downgraded to C due to it's performance that was ranked by us at number 3 and Spicy Hawaian came in last. Fries tastes good and we had bottemless soda.
One thing about eating the burgers here is that, it will get messy! I always wonder why must it get Messi, and not Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka or Robin Van Persie? LOL just kidding. So to tackle the messy issue, you need lotsa tissues. But hey the interior design was not messy at all. Designed to be simple, not size consuming, with spacious effect (white colour chosen) and unique mural, will at least decrease the tense inside the shop, urm looking for seats maybe? Haha. My favourite mural would be the chemistry's periodic-table: Version burger, it's out of the box. But the mural in the shape of burger is cute too. It's written "Hungry? Omnomnomnomnom this burger!".
So to wrap up the post, it was a nice experience trying a 'black burger', it's different, unique in it's own way AND it's nicer because somebody paid for it :) Come early, as early as 5 pm because the queue will start right away.
