Cry Cheese Burger has the double-double game down pat. And hey, good for them!
There’s a burger in the Korean city of Bucheon, just outside of Seoul, that will make you wonder if you just stepped off a Parking Spot shuttle at LAX. It goes by the name of Cry Cheese Burger. Tell us it doesn’t look at least a little familiar, if not an In-N-Out knockoff entirely.
Cry Cheese has proven to be a runaway success, gaining enough of a cult following that there’s even a whole Reddit thread devoted to “innout Korea.” It’s also Trip Advisor’s number-one ranked restaurant in the city. Nevertheless, the burger scene in the greater Seoul area is very well-established and largely run by Korean-Americans and entrepreneurial expats. With popular spots like Brooklyn Burger Joint, Sidburger and the aptly named I Am A Burger, there’s no real reason to trek half an hour by train to the suburbs just to get your Animal on — particularly since the ultra-tony neighborhood of Gangnam will be hosting a pop-up experience. Oh by the way, they call the addition of mustard-griddled onions Animal-style too.
As for the name, we can offer you no insight. According to the Reddit thread, there was previously another imitation In-N-Out in Cheongna, another of Seoul’s satellite cities, called Double Double, that has since changed its name to something presumably less obvious.