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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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