Hey there guys and welcome to an interesting little episode here. This is going to be all about McDonald's
Now for those of you who weren't aware?
The world [Howard] is team you remember world how it is a little thing. I started a while ago
Still running go check out the channel new people are joining all the time
anyway, we've decided we're going to be comparing what McDonald's is like in all the different [countries] around the world so all the
Participants are going out and taking a look at McDonald's they're looking at the menu seeing what's on offer
And I happen to be lucky enough to be living in the city where the first ever McDonald's in Mainland China opened up
So let's go and take a look what that's all about
[once] again, I'm going to have to take the metro to get there and
For those of you who are interested in going to?
The [first-ever] McDonald's open in China. You will want to go to the Loggia Metro station
which is where dolmen is located and
Well, you're going to see what doorman looks like firsthand. I have actually done videos about it many years ago
One thing I'd like to point out is here at Pizza. Hut has a waiting line usually and it's usually packed to the brim
However right now. It's not so packed and there's a reason [for] that
Now if [you] guys saw my most recent, what's happening in China? You will be aware that there's been a big food scandal over here
[and] what it is is I think their company is called pussy or [husi], or I don't really care to be honest
But there's a big
international group called Osi, I think they're called and they supply meets ETc to different people and
What's happened here? Is that the
Chinese Branch over here while the Chinese supplier that sort of
subcontracts them to them
Called who see or [FucCi]. Whatever the hell. I'll put it up here
They were found selling expired meat
Like really old meat. That's just being reprocessed, and you know they do whatever they do to mask the flavor
but meat up to a year that's been expired and
the restaurants that it affected were
KFC McDonald's and pizza hut [and] of course big food scale like that
Business is really falling [for] those international fast food chains
So we're going to go and see just how you know how the McDonald's is [doing]
I'm pretty sure they'll still be lots of people there because it's incredibly popular, but let's just find a
ticket
So we want to choose
mine
And that's very helpful of it going too. Loud you see one and
Here we go two coins
Yep, there. We go shit out took me
Okay, cool. So now we have our token
See my videos before you know this works
What happened here? Why while I was actually working the ticket machine [is] you see someone's hand just came in there
I was a bit taken aback. You know
Having grown up in South Africa. I'm always very suspicious when people
[interfere] getting you you know always on the lookout for thieves and and you know dodgy goings-on
Anyway um turns out the bloke was just trying to help me and show me how to turn it into English because he obviously
Didn't realize that I can I can read Chinese
So that was very nice of him now once I realized
You know what he was doing as you can hear me in the background. [I] said thanks, but in the beginning
I was like what's what's going on here. You know I knew it was pretty cool
Okay, so that's where I'm going over there loud year
station
Which is where Dolman is located
[if] you remember my suit video, I went all the way to low
Just wondering when it suddenly became acceptable for men to be wearing makeup seriously
That's Asia for you unfortunately
In fact you see what it says. It says washer queen Dom [Aaron] thinks. I am a
Big beautiful queen personally what the hell yes, you are a big queen
[Ya] arrived at large as you can see the lots and lots of people. Go here, so I get huge
Shopping area so it's always very crowded anyway
Find the exit [I]
Think I'm supposed to go to x today. I remember correctly so let's see
exit ACC that [way]
So anyway x today if I recall from memory was always the way [in] [to] doorman [how] [the] hang on
Over here. It's saying [xrd]. Don't win Pedestrians [okay], so let's try that one shall, we
Pedestrian [stream] 1 2 3 4 space
Okay, like all of you to just take note that it [is] a Tuesday afternoon at 2:30, so [of] course
There's actually room to walk if you come here on the weekend however you will be surprised at just how
Incredibly packed this place is
Anyway, the McDonald's is just around the corner [here], [so] let's go take a look oh
They're ready from here. I can see their people sitting in there having a meal
But from what I've [heard] a lot of the things are off the menu right now while they sort out this whole food supplier scam
So let's go and take a look
So there it is the first McDonald's ever opened in China
We'll go take a look that's like a plaque inside. I'll take a photo film it for you guys
All right, so let's into the temple of McDonald's shall. We and let's take a look
[taking] down the plaque because it is very nice up here
this packed
interesting
Okay, now what happened next I asked the waitress can I order anything you'll hear in the background and she said yes
But she was lying you can't order everything because when I tried to order some stuff later. Well, you'll see
the fish business
Well, I'm kind of lucky. I've got the whole outside area to myself here as you can see it's very sort of nice open-Air
Garden area to sit in or whatever um
It's pretty obvious. Why I've got it to myself. It's really really hot today
Anyway [caves] you across the way as well there. I think yeah
Anyway, I heard these are still safe these flutter fish
you've got all the normal standard fare of
McDonald's Foods, you got the big macs you got the
Quarter pounders as far as different things are concerned. I guess they do occasionally put in some different things
Turn off the bloody flash, so being on the whole time. That's your teddy anyway um
Yeah, I'll try and see if I can take another sneak shot of the menu down there
Go order a drink of something so we can take a closer look at what's really on offer
Anyway guys let me dig into this
that's a fairly standard thing the bun was stuck to the
You know to the box and that the bun does feel a bit stale to be honest?
But I'm not cook [not] really used to that the [mack] dog
The my quads and China's up to fairly normal standards compared to the rest of the world
Occasionally they have you know different things
Much if you guys get those green wrap things
Overseas does a pretty good here. They do have some kind of rice dishes things that you won't get overseas suppose. I go order
Anyway, let me just finish this off
Okay, so that was surprisingly unsatisfying
Anyway, I'm sure you saw by that picture. They said that some items are not available on [the] menu
I believe it's mainly the chicken stuff like the chicken McNuggets. [you] can't get
no, see you don't see if I can order some actually and
they destroyed hundreds of tons of expired meat, so it was burger patties and
Chicken anything to do a chicken basically was the main sort of stuff. They got rid of
anyway
[let] me [go] see if I can find something on the menu that you want to find
Overseas, and I'll try to take a photo of the menu as well [its] but
Crowded and weird for [me] to be sticking my camera around down there, but I'll try anyway, so let's go back
Okay, so apparently you can still get chicken McNuggets now. Here's the irritating thing is I?
took a photo of the menus like
One of the menu items that you probably won't find in the west. Here's the picture
As I was taking the photo though they said to me in [chinese]. [I'm] allowed to take photos in here. You know
So I had to play the dumb foreigner card and pretend. I didn't understand them
Which does work?
anyway, I tried to order one and they said that's not available right now [in] fact a lot of the things weren't available on the
menu all the
ads of the ordinary stuff the only thing that you can order
Are the normal Burgers and apparently chicken McNuggets?
all the other stuff like those wraps and the rice dish type things that they normally sell unfortunately not available, [so]
[anyway], I'm going to have one of these. I don't really want to eat them, but let's do it
Well, they taste
Pretty much like they always have which is not very good
You know I?
Don't want to get down to McDonald's. I actually do enjoy McDonald's
I really do but it is really the epitome of junk food isn't it?
When you're in China, you got so many
Good food options, you know
so don't understand why people would want to
you know [come]
[here] all the time anyway
There are different things on the menu here
But [unfortunately] the different things are not for sale right now [due] to the big food scandal
One thing that I've noticed which is quite interesting
hong Kong actually has more variety on its menu
Every time I've been to hong kong [they're] in the McDonald's there. They've always got some interesting thing [going] on like
Burgers where the buns are made out of rice or
I don't know just interesting cool things over here on the mainland is actually fairly straightforward normal stuff. I
Can compare to the McDonald's in South Africa exactly the same kind of things Big Macs?
you know
quarter pounders with cheese all that nonsense then the usual stuff right and
of course just a couple of extras like there's green wrap things with rice inside and
Yeah, otherwise. It's more or less the same so we can expect the normal fare when you come to China
Just right now you limited to
chicken McNuggets and big macs really anyway, so that's a
McDonald's in China
Okay, so basically you can take a look here. Here's my slip what I ordered and
my look [sheet] says 4 9
9 RB. I gave 10. I got one back at the bottom. It says welcome back to McDonald's. You know welcome again and
This is that the top just tells you where this place is it [says] welcome to [the] Shenzhen McDonald's
you don't need some people doing around here because
There's just so many people to run around cleaning up after you that most people just leave their camera turn
It's kind of standard practice here
so everyone that was
McDonald's in China
As you can see it's pretty much like
McDonald's everywhere else in the world at least for my own experience
except for a few extra instead of signature dishes which
Shouldn't say dishes much less a signature jobbies. Hey look at this. This is cool
[here's] behind me on the sample actually got a water by your vaporizer so I can cool down the path of eyes
And they're walking in disease it really works
That's nice
Now the summer here is so hot and humid
They actually have water vaporizers on the street here in order to cool down the path of eyes
Which is pretty awesome actually and they line the entire main Pedestrian street here
As you can [see] like this guy just cooling off next to the these girls just cooling off. It's pretty awesome
and
Yeah, it really is an interesting little invention. I must say I'm
Pretty pretty chuffed about that actually makes walking in this heat a little bit more bearable see every lamppost has one
Yeah
Anyway, if you are in China McDonald's should definitely not be on your list of places to go
China's is one of those those countries. Where food is one of the biggest attractions and one of the main reasons to be here
You know why settle for some cookie cutter nonsense, you can get anywhere in the world
When you can have you know any number of amazing?
[you] know different dishes from around China
Yeah, that's my advice for now. I am going to get out [of] this bloody heat and
Probably go have a beer
Well guys I I wish I could have gotten a little more
footage inside of me ordering and Whatnot but
Unfortunately like I said they they're fairly sensitive at the moment obviously due to the whole food scandal thing
and I think they're they're on the lookout for
You know reporters and people coming along, [too] to keep an eye on what's going on
So you [know] it was a bit uncomfortable to be filming in there?
But really it is just like any other McDonald's if you can't speak Chinese
They will put a menu in front of you
Which you saw on you know in the clip and you can just point [it] what you want
And then they'll you know get it for you, so you don't need to worry if you're a foreigner travelling here
But like I said if you're coming to China, you know
Unless you're a paranoid you know paranoid about your food safety
Go ahead go to McDonald's because you see even McDonald's gets affected here
basically if you're worried about food safety
[China's] like the last place [in] the world that you want to be traveling to because there's always going to be food issues at least
In the foreseeable future if they can get away with it
They will so you know come here with an open mind in a stomach of steel
And you'll be okay
anyway
um I really hope you guys found this interesting and
Of course, please leave comments you can ask questions down [in] [the] comments section
but most importantly I'd [like] you to use this opportunity to
[visit] the world how it is channel
[and] take a look at some of the other countries [that] are now showing. What McDonald's like in their countries
I think it's quite an interesting exercise is a good way to compare. What McDonald's is like all around the world
Anyway, that's about it for now guys until next time stay awesome