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Kobayashi pranks the New York Cosmos

April 3, 2014 by Yein Jee

Famous Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi goes undercover at Buffalo Wild Wings as he pranks the New York Cosmos (soccer club) and midfielder Peri Marošević into a chicken wings eating contest. Nice one for April Fools.

Filed Under: Offbeat Tagged With: American food, Asian videos, Competitive eating, Fun and humour, Japan blog, New York City, Sports and athletes, Takeru Kobayashi

Nathans Famous – The Story

January 15, 2014 by Yein Jee

Video introducing the Nathan’s Famous, an American fast food chain specializing in hot dogs, and perhaps most famous for its annual hot dog eating contest.

Filed Under: Offbeat Tagged With: American food, Fast Food, Nathan's Famous, United States

First McDonald’s in Moscow in 1990

November 26, 2012 by Yein Jee

Old video showing the long queue on the opening day (Jan 31, 1990) of the first – and back then the world’s largest – McDonald’s restaurant in former Soviet Union.

The restaurant was operated by McDonald’s Canada instead of the American HQ, probably to avoid sensitivity issue as the Cold War has just ended.

McDonald’s also opened its first outlet in mainland China in October the same year.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: American food, American pop culture, Fast Food, McDonald's, Moscow City, Russian Federation, World records

Subway is world’s largest restaurant chain

March 8, 2011 by Yein Jee

Subway sandwichSubway has surpassed McDonald’s as the world’s largest restaurant chain in terms of units. Subway had 33,749 restaurants around the globe at the end of 2010, while McDonald’s had 32,737.

Subway is not popular in Asia though, only 1000+ of its outlets are in this region, less than 5% of its total units which are spread across 95 countries.

Its spokesperson has named India and China among its high growth nations, but it remains to be seen if they could survive in long run. Culturally Asians have yet to accept sandwich or burger as staple food.

And the idea of eating healthily – which Subway is famous for – works only in a few places in this part of the world. Pricing and taste prevail.

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: American food, Fast Food, United States, World records

Grace Park Hawaiian Tour

January 28, 2011 by Yein Jee

Hawaiian food and lifestyle, as introduced by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park – one of the main leads in American TV series Hawaii Five-0…

Filed Under: Travel & Living Tagged With: American food, Grace Park, Hawaii State, United States

Cold Stone Creamery, East Asian Style

April 4, 2009 by Yein Jee

Cold Stone Creamery, an ice-cream parlor franchise from Arizona, USA, is known for its mix-ins and lively service culture where the workers would sing a tune or two when tipped by the customers.

Tipping is not common in Asia though; so I guess the staff would probably sing along whenever they feel like it. Sharing some videos of the staff in action from Cold Stone Creamery outlets in Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan…

Japan – Forget ice cream, the girls are champs…

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Filed Under: Offbeat Tagged With: Amazing and cool, American food, Asian Food, Asian videos

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