Originally Posted by
Daner
I checked out the small McDonalds on the Nanjing pedestrian street (downstairs, same side of the street as the Apple Store) in Shanghai in June. No tablecloths there. No BigMacs either. Not as high a standard as we see in Sweden. No better than I have seen in the US either.
Impossible. I have been to hundreds of McD locations in China and have never once not been able to order a Big Mac. Perhaps they were sold out? (Seems unlikely though because they would have gotten supply from another location.)
Regarding KFC, the American version, when not managed by a lazy franchisee, simply blows the doors off of the Chinese version. In China, the mashed potatoes taste like saw dust and instead of biscuits, we get plasticesque bread rolls.
And, don't even get me started on Taco Bell Grande. There's a reason it only lasted for a year in Shanghai; everybody knew that its food was abominable.
Originally Posted by
YuropFlyer
Pizza Hat, indeed, is quite a bit more "pricy" (compared to local alternatives) in China than in the US, they're trying to sell themselves as a "good" restaurant there. Don't like them, so tried them only once when I was really hungry and my stomach was a bit upset, it was ok but otherwise I would SO much prefer a Chinese restaurant over them.
I hadn't been to a Pizza Hut in ten years until I came down to Nanning. In light of the lack of western food here, I eat there on occasion. I don't like it, but it beats a lot of the other crap out there. And, it is REALLY cheap... (i.e. less than McD's for lunch). Maybe it costs more in other cities.