[nickcarraway]

[GeronL]

Is that like putting a Taco Bell in Mexico City?

[CorporateStepsister]

This sounds like a fantastic idea; the Chinese will get a taste of Americanized Chinese takeout and Americans will get a taste of home when they feel like it.

[cripplecreek]

[who knows what evil?]

"I feel calm. I feel relaxed. I feel like I'm at home."

That's just the 'MSG' kicking in...

[null and void]

Did you ever notice that of all the Chinatowns in America, not a single one has a Mein Street, why is that?...

[virgil283]

Thanks NC.....living in a foreign country does make you crave familiar food.

In Spain. before franchises expanded there, we heard there was a McDonald's. Arriving we discovered he had only copied what he had heard about American food.

The hamburgers were ground pork [HAM-buger get it?], the buns were dinner rolls and the fries were small new potatoes fried. Nevertheless we ate it up . HA...

[Marcella]

I'll tell you about real Chinese food - it's bland, bland, bland. I spent two weeks in Hong Kong and one day in mainland China. The Chinese food has very little taste. Lots of little dumplings with fillings and no seasoning. I say none, because you can't taste a seasoning if it is in there. We were so disappointed in this bland food, we checked about Hong Kong to try to find Chinese with a taste. We finally found ONE Szechuan food restaurant and there we got the taste of the Szechuan province of China which uses spices to produce spicy food. Other than that place, you will get bland tasting food. That is the vast amount of Chinese food and if you don't want that, stay in the US. When in China, eat as the Chinese do.

Then, we go to mainland China and a big Chinese dinner is served just for us at a large building and it's owned by the Chinese government. Again, little dumplings, etc., all bland. Peking duck at least has enough meat you know you are eating meat and it's not drowned in little pasty tasting dumplings.

My trip was some years ago, so I don't know if it has changed, but based on this new restaurant serving spicy food, I guess it hasn't - that their main food is still bland.

I would go to this new restaurant in a heart beat if I lived there.

[EQAndyBuzz]

That’s a PBR on the table. Thought they were out of business years ago.

[JoeFromSidney]

When I was teaching in Turkey, my campus was on the Asian side of the Bosphorus. Every Sunday I'd take a bus over to the European side to get to Mass. After Mass I'd go to the nearby McDonald's, because I did miss American food. It wasn't quite the same as at home, though. Very thin bun, too much mayonnaise, and I'd get the goo all over my hands because the burger would slip out of the bun as I tried to bite it. Still, it was better than going without completely. The rest of the week I ate Turkish food. Good, but it took some getting used to.

[Dutch Boy]

I sometimes host my Chinese counterparts when they come to the US. I took one of the women who was having some issues getting used to American style breakfasts to a a dim sum restaurant. At the end of the meal the waitress broke us the check and fortune cookies. My counterpart asked, “Do all American restaurants serve these?” It’s been years and I still chuckle when I think of it.