Canada’s Minister of National Defence stopped by a downtown Vancouver eatery Wednesday to sample a burger named in his honour.

Harjit Sajjan, who represents the Vancouver-South riding, is in town this week for the Liberal government’s first ministers meeting, but made time to visit The Cannibal Café and try out his namesake burger: The Minister of National Deliciousness.

“I approve,” Sajjan said after taking a first bite. “It’s got pakoras on it. Who would’ve thought to put it into a burger? Now that – that makes sense.”

The chicken burger also features a tandoori-spiced patty doused in butter chicken sauce and pressed yogurt with mint, cilantro and cucumbers.

It was introduced as February’s Burger of the Month, but the eatery's owner said it was so popular they added it to the regular menu.

Sajjan, who called the experience “very humbling,” also shook hands with the chef behind the burger, Zai Kitagawa, and signed off on a chalkboard featuring a drawing of him in sunglasses.

Kitagawa told reporters he started thinking about the burger shortly after the minsiter’s appointment.

“If there’s a man that a Canadian can be proud of, it’s definitely Mr. Sajjan,” he said.