Spending three weeks in Asia allowed me to overindulge in delicious, authentic Asian food. However, I do admit, the occasional hamburger cravings did creep up on me and I had to pay a few visits to the local McDonald’s. One thing I love about McDonald’s in Asia is how the menu is catered to the specific country’s cultural tastes. For example, in Singapore, you can ask for curry sauce to go along with your Chicken McNuggets. Other delicious options include the Mega Mac (made of four beef patties!), or the Mega Beef Prosperity Burger. The prosperity burger will help you ring in the Chinese New Year with its two black pepper spiced beef patties.
Not only are the the menus different, but even Mr. Ronald McDonald himself! Here’s me posing with a Thai Ronald McDonald. Sawadee Ka!
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In HK McDs they have Shogun burger (teriyaki beef), it’s seasonal though….
and KFC somehow tastes so much better over there compare to the ones here, weird
Mmm, I loved that curry sauce for McNuggets; that was available in McDonalds France in the 1990s… and it was seriously one of the reasons I went to McDonalds (besides that they had free bathrooms and they would change your big bills without trouble, which was a big deal in pre-euro Europe).
There were a few special items on the McDonald’s China menu, but I wasn’t into them. There was a breakfast sandwich patty that was made mostly of filler vegetables, and an “ice coffee” that was really and “ice cream coffee.” I went to KFC in China much more often, as it’s more popular there than McD’s. The funny thing is it’s actually a little complicated to buy pieces of chicken at KFC; only sandwiches and wraps are on the big overhead menu.
McDonald’s Philippines has a more exciting menu to me… you can get a sausage, egg, and rice breakfast, OR longanisa, egg, and rice…. the day time menu has a chicken leg and rice, or a chicken leg and McSpaghetti….