I really wish I had a Mos Burger and Yoshinoya where I live. SF is bad for fast food (it’s supposed to be a good thing), but I really want some culturally relevant, rice-based fast food sometimes
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I really wish I had a Mos Burger and Yoshinoya where I live. SF is bad for fast food (it’s supposed to be a good thing), but I really want some culturally relevant, rice-based fast food sometimes
There’s a local restaurant that tries to do a Mos Burger clone, bless them, but it’s not for me
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I also love telling people that when you order a fast food burger at McDonald’s or KFC in places like Indonesia, they give you a burger and a side of rice!
Also, that those chains actually taste good outside the US
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Ulrike Walter-Lipowreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I think the latter part is only true for countries where they compete with flavorful food. In Germany, the taste is pretty much the same as in the US
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
Before someone inevitably comes here and says ‘why would someone eat fast food in Malaysia or Indonesia or Thailand when the local food is great’
Because fast food in those places is pretty great
And because these chains represent important and safe third spaces, with WiFi, power, food, open all night or 24/7, and are functionally equivalent to a social role of say, a library. No need to export American fast food classism to other contexts
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I will defend McDonalds Malaysia to my last breath https://supertravelr.com/en/trip/malaysia/10-delicious-fast-food-items-you-can-only-order-in-malaysia-F409603CC1/
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you know how the Paris syndrome is when you go to Paris and realize it’s a nice city but it’s not the weird fairytale you thought it would be? I think people from southeast Asia have the same thing but with McDonald’s. When we come to the ‘home’ of McDonald’s and we all go, what the hell is.. this?
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@skinnylatte When I was in Cleveland, I would often go to the local diner for my burgers as they can custom create the burgers for me. I usually had onions and a fried egg in my burgers.
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@eviltofu they’ve got better burgers than where I am, for sure
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@skinnylatte Is there reverse Paris syndrome? When US people come to SEA fast food joints and find out how good they are?
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@eviltofu some of them never get past the taste of how localized and different it is
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Ulrike Walter-Lipow last edited by
@lipow still better bread and meat, and also nicer restaurants (US McDonald’s usually look scary and dirty and trashed, instead of clean like elsewhere)
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@skinnylatte I get the point you’re making, but when I went to Paris a while back I preemptively braced myself with skepticism because I knew about this syndrome, and then it was actually as good as everyone had told me. I was mildly cranky about it
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@Catfish_Man personally I was always skeptical of the French (and every European colonial society) so I was never infected with this, but I found it good in the parts that nobody really told me about (African and Asian immigrants and their food and communities), and utterly boring in the grandiose colonial bits that people rave about.
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Brian Drell :veritrek:replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte There’s a Yoshinoya in Cupertino. I’ve never been, but I really should try it.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Brian Drell :veritrek: last edited by
@drell don’t expect too much. It is comfort fast food after all. just very nostalgic for me