Wally’s Deluxe Wagon Burger Experience
Posted by Stephen on
March 15, 2007
After sampling the excellence of Memphis Blues, Vancouver’s Hot Spot for BBQ supremacy, the train rolled on to Knight and Day Restaurant, the birthplace of the legendary Incredible Hulk Burger. Both of these were hits, but is there room for a third? To find this answer, we ventured to what looks like the most unlikely place to find great food, let alone a great burger: Wally’s at 2703 Kingsway on the Eastside of Vancouver.
Wally’s (officially known as Wally’s Drive In) is probably one of the most broke ass looking places to ever flip a burger, but I’m sure that during the days of the drive in eatery, it was one of the kings. Afterall, it’s survived for eons. I always drive past it without a single glance, but today I would be making a stop there. Driving back from the gym and looking for extra calories, I called up Leo who was more than happy to accompany me. Leo is always hungry.
Has The Hulk Met its Match?
After experiencing “The Hulk”, we had to order Wally’s Signature Burger: The Deluxe Wagon.
If you compare it to the Knight and Day Incredible Hulk Burger, you can tell that the Hulk has the Deluxe Wagon beat on size. If you recall, the Hulk Burger got its girth from a fried egg on the bottom and a bavarian sausage on the top. The Hulk also had what seemed to be a hand made patty that was quite thick, while the Deluxe Wagon uses two standard frozen patties, flame broiled.
The Wally’s Deluxe Wagon holds the onions, plays the processed cheese card, and went light on the special sauce. Based on the size of the burger, I guess that’s why the guy asked us if we wanted two of them. Taste wise, it was OK. It wasn’t special and it certainly didn’t leave us in hamburger heaven like the Hulk Burger. I guess we’ll give it another go…
Round TWO!
For round two, we wanted to make the competition a bit more even. Since the Hulk Burger had a sausage and a fried egg, we had to add a fried egg and a weiner. I know, not exactly the same and it was one of those crappy skinny weiners to boot. Each option was an extra 80 cents over top of the four buck base price of the Deluxe Wagon burger. The burger is so tall with these extra additions that they had to skewer it to keep it together. They also went extra heavy on the sauce so I could taste it this time. The last one was skinny on the sauce.
This is definitely more like it! With the wimpy Deluxe Wagon bulked up with some weiner and egg action, would it be enough to take down the Hulk? Unfortunately not. The Deluxe Wagon falls short on a few areas that the Hulk burger SMASHES it on:
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Use of REALLY processed cheese
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No onions? WTF?
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Skinny on the sauce.
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Egg and Weiner are options, and where’s the Bavarian Sausage?
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No big juicy handmade looking patty. Two skinny generic patties are used.
So what’s the verdict on Wally’s Signature Deluxe Wagon Burger? For the price, it’s a great value, but once I added on the extras and multiplied it by two with fries, it ended up being the same price as the Hulk Burger. The Hulk Burger had me pondering my existence as I sat there in Hamburger Heaven, while the Deluxe Wagon, even after the second one, left me somewhat unfulfilled. If you want a real mans burger, get the Hulk Burger. It CRUSHES the Deluxe Wagon.
That is the most times I have ever seen the word weiner in one post/article. With that said, I love the reviews Leo and you are doing on some of the various restaurants in your area.
Looks like the Hulk burger is the clear cut winner so far.
I’m enjoying this series too! I have hit up some great burger joints here in the States. If you two need some suggestion, don’t hesitate! I won’t steer you wrong!
glad you enjoyed the reviews, and yes, the Hulk comes out ahead so far.
The Hulk rocks for sure! I’ve got friends asking me to take them out for one now, lol!
If only there were a way to ship one of these burgers!
It wouldn’t be fresh, but in an artight container, it could make the trip.
Especially if it was shipped for next day delivery – just imagine the cost of shipping though!
Hmm, I might have to look into this as I am sure the cost of next day delivery of a burger is more affordable than a trip to Vancouver.
probably wouldn’t taste so good if you had to reheat it
I think the Feenies “Foie Gras” burger is on the list of targets. At $50 bucks though, it might have to wait for a special occasion.
Yeah, $50 I can get a top-o-the-line steak at Gotham’s. Hey, I haven’t been to Gotham’s in years. Hmmm, future review!
A $50 hamburger?! WTF?!?! What’s on it, caviar and lobster tail?
That reminds me of the little article I recently read about a $1000 pizza.
Was that the one that was made in the states and flown over to the UK??
I don’t think so…it was at some place in New York that was trying to cater to the Wall Street crowd and the pizza was served cold with various types of caviar and lobster as well as a few other things.
Here is some info on the .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17627149/
That looks good, but $1000 for a pizza? That’s kind of a walking contradiction. I mean, the first thing that I think of when I think cheap food is ordering up a pizza. I doubt we’ll see this on a campus anytime soon…
The Feenie Burger $16
100% Certified Angus beef, seved medium with sauteed mushrooms, cheese, bacon and house cut fries
Extras: Sauteed Foie Gras $25
Braised Short Ribs $7 Poutine $3
Of course, you’d want all of it, ergo, $50 burger
What the hell is Foie Gras exactly? I keep seeing people talking about it but I have no idea what it even is.
Foie gras is basically duck liver. Here’s what the “define” tool in Google brought up:
Foie Gras: literally translated, “fat liver”; but the term is used to describe the fattened liver of both duck and geese. The birds are force fed a rich mixture to help expedite this process. The largest production of commercial foie gras is done in France and Israel. The US will only allow this product to be imported in a cooked stage, either canned, vacuum-sealed, or frozen. These are inferior products and will never highlight the true delicacy of foie gras.
And people pay $25 to eat that? Lol, it doesn’t sound like my thing but I guess I should try it one of these days to see what it is all about.
Lol, just a hand made patty topped with Foie Gras.
Looks like you definatly need to go through that cleansing again
I am sure it’s worth it though. Those look tasty!
You might be right, but yes, it’s worth it to experience goodness like this.
That 6 lb. burger up in Pennsylvania looks like it would crush about 15 of each of those burgers. At the same time.
My sympathy that you must endure such tasty hardships.
I’m trying to imagine a 6 lb burger. They’d have to finish it in the oven because if they just grilled it, it would probably be raw on the inside still. Not only would it kill you if they didn’t cook it right, but it would kill you because your arteries would clog
It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it
And you’re telling me that even if it was cooked properly, your arteries wouldn’t clog?
I think I’m telling you that I’d either die of food poisoning…or clogged arteries.
Ugh! Food poisoning! Something happened at Wally’s cause when I got home that night I pissed out of my ass.
I think I did my time at sketchy PHO places and built up an immunity. All that tripe I consumed must have mutated me.
Every year on New Years Day we have something called mett, which is basically raw meat with some spices added. It is delicious and haven’t gotten sick once.
depends on the cut of the meat, traditionally hamburger is made from ground chuck meat, which is the worst.
I love eating Japanese beef tataki (raw beef) and I never have any problems.
You’re right, as the stuff we eat is not ground chuck meat so that would make a difference.
It is not a good idea to have raw ground meat, whereas a “cut” is pretty safe… like a steak taken medium rare. The same can be said about beef tataki.
Yeah, you can get burgers with different cut meats too. The high end burgers use sirloin or tenderloin beef. The stuff at fast food restaurants could be a combination of things like lips and assholes, kinda like sausage, and need to be cooked properly.
Man, woke up hungry at 3:30 in the morning and chanced upon this post. Makes me even more hungry. I want that juicy burger!
I think you want THIS Juicy burger Josh!
http://www.stephenfung.net/knight-and-days-incredible-hulk-burger/
Thanks for dropping by at 3:30AM