Fat Boy’s, Singapore

This is for when you want to indulge.

Every once in a while, you want to just go out and get fat. You want to just eat a whole restaurant. Hungry, moody, rage-y, a burger will settle you down, purr and burp.

Though Singapore has a wide range of burger chains including stalwarts such as Carl’s Junior and MOS Burger, I didn’t get a chance to visit those while I was there. Luckily, I did manage Fat Boy’s, and oh boy, did I get fat.

Picture this:

• Huge, rich, almost-obscene sounding burgers
• Giant mutant potato wedge/fries
• Football matches on their screens
• Ginormous Hoegaardens – $10 a glass, 6:00 pm onwards, everyday!!

How did I not know about this place before?? The place even has a water cooler that you can take unlimited glasses of water! Now as my Accounting professor told us in our first week, "there is no free lunch in Singapore". So yeah, a water cooler, and a friendly server encouraging you to use it is a big deal!

And hullo.. $10 for a Hoegaarden the size of your face?? In a land where a ‘bottle’ of beer is a merely a pint, and every ‘bottle’ comes for at least $14.00 at pubs - a large glass like that, which had to be at least 500ml, served with the Europe’s best white beer, with no happy hour restrictions other than ‘6PM onwards’, is a frikkin steal people!

The Fat Boy’s menu has, in addition to drool-worthy appetizers and snacks, a long list of specialty burgers. Themes like “Jamaican Me Hungry” (Jerk seasoned bacon stuffed Pork patty topped with sundried tomatoes, chewy bacon and homemade coleslaw and smothered with mayonaise on a sesame seed bun) and “The Elvis” (Bacon stuffed Pork patty, grilled bananas and creamy peanut butter on a honey oat bun) tend to catch your eye. The most recommended burger is the “Fat Basterd” (Double beef chuck patties, chewy bacon,cheddar cheese, a fried egg and homemade Fatboy's sauce on a sesame bun), the biggest baddest burger on the menu.

Note: All menu descriptions are courtesy http://www.fatboys.sg/food.html.

Bleu Peppercorn burger and Hoegaarden beer at Fat Boy's

I went for something relatively simple, I like my orders a little spicier and stronger. My “Bleu Peppercorn” (Beef chuck patty coated in crushed black pepper topped with a crispy onion ring, and homemade blue cheese dressing on a sesame bun) arrived in a plate of burger and fries that I could not possibly finish. But I did.

The pepper beef patty was so solid, so juicy. And my mind started wandering to the actual production of this beef, it was astounding how the crushed pepper corns were there in every bite! And it was all meat, none of that irritating onion-potato stuff that fills it up. This was solid ground beef. (Btw - the picture doesn’t do the burger size justice. It’s taken from the fries angle. The burger is actually huge, the kind that you really have to open wide to bite!)

And the cheese! Oh the cheese. Blue cheese has this almost unbearable twang on your tongue sometimes, but with this burger it all just came together. The sourish blue cheese, the peppery beef patty and the sweet glazed onions all balanced the flavours out and the result was nom-nom-nom-nom burger that was washed down with a never ending tumbler of beer.

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