Restaurants in Yokosuka have used a special recipe they received from the US Navy to add ‘Navy Burgers’ to their menus:

The burger is initially available at four restaurants chosen by the city government, which wants to promote it as a local delicacy. Six other restaurants will begin to serve the burger by mid-February.

The burger, made with a 200-gram ground beef patty, uses less salt and sauce than other burgers to enable customers to fully taste the flavor of beef, the restaurants say. Each restaurant also uses its own secret ingredient.

Among the four restaurants is Tsunami, a Mexican restaurant located just in front of the Navy base, which is serving an extra-large burger called “the George Washington” after the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with the same name that was deployed to Yokosuka last September.

The four restaurants with Navy Burgers are the Bistro Gourmand, Tsunami, Honey Bee, and Launa.

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