Know why I love McDonalds?

[HEyHEY]

Cause China SUCKS ASS for coffee. Except for going to the foreigner store and buying imported coffee you can't get coffee here aside from starbucks and over-priced shitty Chinese coffee places and that's if you are lucky enough to find one. Most places just sell instant coffee as well.

However, McDonalds are all over the place, even in the shittiest little cities. So, I know if I see McDonalds I can get a cup of normal black coffee for cheap. And it ain't bad coffee either.

I forgive them for all their caused triple bypasses and IBS now.

[hibbing]

1. Ni Hao

Hey,
Interesting post, are there other things you crave that you have to go to American franchises to get? I have heard KFC are big there.

Peace

[HEyHEY]

2. they LOVE KFC here

I pretty well make anything I crave. There's some things that you have no chance of getting and just go without though. But, in general you can just by the raw ingredients and make it yourself though finding it made for you is hard.

[JVS]

6. Does China need a poutine producer?

[HEyHEY]

12. Actually it does, you can't get cheese kurds here

SO, the few restaurants that have poutine can't do it 100 percent properly

[Danger Mouse]

7. I was in China once for a trip in high school and I was amazed at how much they loved KFC..

even having life-sized statues of colonel sanders at some restaurants. weird.

[HEyHEY]

13. That's nothing, for the 60th anniversary last year they had a list of the top 60 most....

Influential foreigners.... the colonel made the list

[old mark]

3. You have answered a question that I had for a long time...In the 70's and 80's

a lot of people here were afraid of the Chinese invading and taking over the USA. I often wondered what the Chinese would do with this crazy place if they had it...

Now I know - they would go to McDonalds and KFC!

(I guess they don't have BoJangles chicken yet or many taco or pizza places...there is opportunity there!)
FWIW, I think if the Chinese government ever took the US over, they would soon give it back and run...

Mark

[Kali]

8. this reminds me of one of my favorites

a few years ago my father and his Russian wife (god that sounds so tawdry - not a mail order bride, but another interpreter romance) found a freaking Mexican restaurant somewhere in Siberia! Enchiladas and tacos! I remember as a kid shipping tortilla chips to my folks in Alaska! because they couldn't get a fix!

[petronius]

4. That's why I love McDonalds here in the US

Cheap coffee that's actually good...

[JVS]

5. Is the tea good in China?

There are certain countries you drink coffee in: Turkey, France, Italy, etc.
There are other countries where you go for the tea, because their coffee culture takes a second place: England, Russia, India, China, etc.

[HEyHEY]

14. It is good, yes

But I'm not a huge tea fan anymore. Canada used to be a tea country, but I've moved on!

[mopinko]

9. i like that mc donalds always provides free, unlocked restrooms

even in india. sort of.
are the bathrooms clean and available in china?

[HEyHEY]

15. Available but FILTHY

I've had some nightmares, let me tell ya

[mopinko]

16. yeah, toilets that are holes in the ground were one of the

real high points of our trip, not. but as holes in the ground go, mickey's was clean.

i don't remember what we ordered, but i do remember that it was just awful. think it was the worst food we had on the whole trip, which included a lot of bad 'food for the tourists' food.

[HEyHEY]

17. Really? I've always found the food here to be awesome

That said, most of the places tourists see ain't great. Cause the chinese owners know they can cut corners and still make money. If you go to South Beijing where there are no tourists the restaurants are awesome.

[mopinko]

18. the best meal we had was in the cafeteria of the

company that we went there to see. nobody seemed to believe us that we had real indian where we came from. better indian than we got there. and especially nobody believed us that we liked spicy.

eta- the only really atrocious meal was at the mickey's. the rest was just like what they put out for the indian buffet around here.

[Bucky]

10. Well, if you're going to sell food that kills people, China's probably the best place to set up shop

It's not like they're running out of Chinese people.

[Ikonoklast]

11. I am confused by your post.

Are you trying to say that they feed the dead corpses back to the populace, a la Soylent Green?