When you are in Morocco, visit the Elvadi Palace, walk on the site of the Kutvia Mosque, or enjoy the date and chebakia meal in McDonald's?
For some people, meals at McDonald's became part of the pleasure of traveling abroad. Sweden's “Skis Roux” restaurant, a New Zealand Douglas DC-3 aircraft abolished aircraft, has a very different menu, which draws local people and tourists and adapts to many cultures. Masu.
Tiktok, YouTube, and Reddit are amazed by the options for travelers, such as Canadian Poutine, Jamónibéricosandwiches in Spain, French chicken in Malaysia, French macaron, and MCSPAGHETTI in the Philippines.
Some veteran travelers may look down on their meals in Paris or Bangkok in McDonald's, but brand fans are worth seeing how chains adapt to local culture. 。 It was a way to mix the comfort of the house and the new one.
That's how Gary, a photographer based in Brooklyn, looks at it. He recently released “Mcatlas: A Global Guide to the Golden Arches”.
He said that McDonald's project was not allowed to project a major difference between McDonald's location in the United States and overseas. “McDonald's is consistently known, but as it goes around the world, it realizes that it is not really,” he said in an interview. “It is against everything you believe, know, or assume when you are sitting in the United States.”
This book posts photos taken at a restaurant in McDonald's in 50 countries, introducing local menu products, unique architecture, and stunning environments.
The image shows the experience of becoming more and more interested among travelers.
35 -year -old Christopher Seza and 36 -year -old Stephanie Round have recently sampled five different kinds of vegetarian burgers in Mumbai's McDonald's.
“It's very interesting to see how McDonald's adapts to these cultures,” said Round. “If so, people wouldn't go there,” she added. “I can say that they are doing their research.”
For McDonald's with nearly 42,000 restaurants in about 100 countries, it is an important part of overseas businesses.
In the statement, McDonald's said, “I am passionate about the connection and understanding of the community.” It is possible to grab the big Mac or french fries everywhere, but about one -third of the menu items in each country are customized, incorporating local ingredients, flavors, and traditional dishes.
(Using that novel sensation, Chicago's McDonald's has begun to provide an international menu item rotation selection.)
He (40 years old) said he ate McDonald's Ton as a child who grew up with the “Immigrant Immigrant Parents”. He cherished the chain cheeseburger and happy meals, and continued eating there while traveling as a working photographer.
About six years ago, while traveling to Marrakchi, Morocco, he sampled McDonald's spin in Ramadan with an Iftar meal.
“I said,” This is completely different from what I expected, “he said,” What else is there? “
After the pandemic travel restrictions were lifted, he began to document McDonald's worldwide spread and shoot more unique places and menus.
He visited Maxky at the Lindvalence Key Resort in Sweden, Sweden, and provided a “skies roux” window at the foot of the slope. He traveled to a Japanese -style community garden in Singapore. And in the New Zealand Taopo, he ate on the abolished Douglas DC-3 plane.
He wanted his photos to “open the eyes of the people,” and said in McDonald's that “it is not just globalization, but many localization is progressing.
He is almost alone in his fanatics.
Eater.com's correspondent Jaya Saxena (38 years old) frequently visited McDonald's under McDonald's apartment while studying in Rome in 2007. It was a budget -friendly option for college students, and she said she was surprised by pastry and beer. She loved the BACI MCFLURRY, which featured the popular Italian hazelnut chocolate.
Since then she has visited McDonald's location around the world -India's location is one of her favorite -how local delicacies appear in McFrality, like Cadbalee chocolate in Ireland. Please always check.
“I have something I never have in the United States,” said Saxena in an interview. “And it just illuminates something in your brain.”
DREW BINSKY (33 years old), a popular trip to YouTuber, ate in McDonald's in more than 80 countries. He ranks the location of Rome and Portugal Porto in his favorite.
“For a lot of time, culture takes me to McDonald's, because people are the following:” Did you try our McDonald's? It's very good. ” I did it.
Even the decorated chef does not have immunity. Reverie chef, a 39 -year -old Johnny Spello and Michelin -stared restaurant in Washington DC, stops at McDonald's when traveling abroad for work, as recently in Brussels and Kyoto. Spero proudly displays the copy of “Mcatlas” on Reverie. Here, the tasting menu is about $ 300 per person.
“I don't eat regularly here,” he said in an interview.
