Monday, May 29, 2006
Fast Food
Fast Food - good fast food can sometimes save the day. :-)
Now here are plenty of McDonald's and even more KFC (more than 1000 KFC in China afaik). But I can't stand McDonald's anymore - the customers are annoying and the food is not very good. I also have some issues with KFC since I spent some quality time in a little room after lunch (not sure if this was connected but since then I lost the appetite).
So what is left? A local KFC-Copy with a funny Chinese head as a logo and plenty other chains with mixed quality. But last year I got somehow saved - Burger King opened it's FIRST store in whole China. And that was in Shanghai (nearby Jing'an Temple). They bravely opened their first restaurant in this country only 10 years after all the other competitors...
They doubled their number of stores a short time ago and another store is in a food court in People's Square (New World City).
There is currently a promotion running with free upsize/cheese:
As you can see there are three Whopper sizes - "Whopper Xiao" simply means little Whopper. You can also order the Whopper and all other burgers "spicy", like in McDonald's and KFC. Many Chinese wish spicy burgers.
Their restaurants are OK and they even managed the queuing concept as good as possible - but still I don't make it that often to go there.
Another kind of "Fast Food" - another beer brand in China, "Steinlager". Quite nice and not very expensive, but the bottle opener is a bit funny (never had that before).
I'm completely addicted to this stuff here. Coca-Cola is now also doing local manufacturing of Vanilla Coke so that it is now available for a reasonable price. (2.50 RMB / 0.25 Euro)
Before that I had to buy it in the imported food section for at least the double price - but therefore imported from the states. I'm not so sure if they also changed the receipe for this one, because the normal Coke (and also Pepsi) have a lot more sure than normal.
Now here are plenty of McDonald's and even more KFC (more than 1000 KFC in China afaik). But I can't stand McDonald's anymore - the customers are annoying and the food is not very good. I also have some issues with KFC since I spent some quality time in a little room after lunch (not sure if this was connected but since then I lost the appetite).
So what is left? A local KFC-Copy with a funny Chinese head as a logo and plenty other chains with mixed quality. But last year I got somehow saved - Burger King opened it's FIRST store in whole China. And that was in Shanghai (nearby Jing'an Temple). They bravely opened their first restaurant in this country only 10 years after all the other competitors...
They doubled their number of stores a short time ago and another store is in a food court in People's Square (New World City).
There is currently a promotion running with free upsize/cheese:
As you can see there are three Whopper sizes - "Whopper Xiao" simply means little Whopper. You can also order the Whopper and all other burgers "spicy", like in McDonald's and KFC. Many Chinese wish spicy burgers.
Their restaurants are OK and they even managed the queuing concept as good as possible - but still I don't make it that often to go there.
Another kind of "Fast Food" - another beer brand in China, "Steinlager". Quite nice and not very expensive, but the bottle opener is a bit funny (never had that before).
I'm completely addicted to this stuff here. Coca-Cola is now also doing local manufacturing of Vanilla Coke so that it is now available for a reasonable price. (2.50 RMB / 0.25 Euro)
Before that I had to buy it in the imported food section for at least the double price - but therefore imported from the states. I'm not so sure if they also changed the receipe for this one, because the normal Coke (and also Pepsi) have a lot more sure than normal.
