Last year, KFC brought over the infamous Double Down, which was marketed as a “no-bun sandwich”. Opinions on whether KFC’s newest product tasted great or the otherwise, varied from one person to another.
Enter KFC’s “new” chicken menu item: the Tower Burger. “New,” because this food item has yet to actually appear in any other countries—making this a first for KFC Philippines. This burger is really just an improvement to the chicken burgers KFC offers—someone decided to slap a hash brown in there.
The Tower Burger’s main selling point is that it is absurdly tall because of the hash brown. The entire thing is as huge as half your face. While the only difference it has with KFC’s Chik’n Fillet – Cheesy Crunch sandwich (nevermind that the Cheesy Crunch uses grated cheese and the Tower a cheese single—both use cheese) is the hash brown, it is indeed a marked improvement in terms of texture.
The hash brown gives the sandwich a much-needed crunch. The chicken, while fried, lacks what its plate-served version has: the crunchy part. This is where the hash brown comes in; never mind that the hash brown is a little bland because the chicken solves that in return.
The rest of the sandwich is pretty much standard fare like a usual sandwich – you are really paying for the hash brown.
But a word of caution, KFC seems a little heavy-handed on the mayo this time. Apart from that though, the hash brown’s crisp dimension makes this sandwich worth trying for being a mere “improvement,” but worth trying nonetheless, or you could just put your own hash brown into a plain chicken sandwich.
