We tried it: Lotte's ramen burger
Lotteria's ramen burger / Courtesy of Johanne MillerBy Lee Min-hyungIf you’ve checked into your Facebook account recently and have any friends in Korea, you may have seen Lotteria’s new ramen burger on your newsfeed. The chicken-patty-and-ramen-bun creation, available for a limited time at the fast-food chain, is certainly hard to miss.Ramen burgers are not a new creation - variations on the sandwich have become popular in New York and elsewhere. But it appears to be the first major ramen burger to be sold in Korea, so this reporter headed over to the Lotteria at Seoul Station to try the product and see what people had to say. Regardless of opinions - which have been mixed - the product has managed to generate interest, with the chain selling 120,000 burgers on Tuesday, the first day of its release, according to Oh Tek-yong, a senior assistant at Lotteria’s PR department. The chain plans to sell 500,000 burgers for the special event.The interest was also evident at Seoul Station, where it took more than 15 minutes to get a ramen burger during lunch
Jan 7, 2015