America Day!

Saturday, September 22nd, 2008



Today we celebrated America Day! For America day, we, about 9 of us, basically hit up the restaurants that we would find in the US. We started the day off with lunch at McDonald’s. Last time I came to McDonald’s in China was when I was about 8 years old. I had gotten a fish fillet sandwich and it was horrible! Ever since then, I’ve always said that McDonald’s tasted horrible in China, even after just one fillet. 12 years later here I am, at McDonald’s. I ask myself, do you think it taste the same? There was only one way to find out! So I got the fillet. It was 15 rmb for the meal and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Actually tasted decent. Way to go McDonald’s!

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Then we took the metro downtown somewhere. It was packed so it wasn’t too much fun being squished, but it was alright. Taxi’s seemed to be a pain to find today. It was also raining so that probably didn’t help. But our next stop was Starbuck’s. The prices at starbucks were pretty much equivalent to what you would pay in the US. I got the caramel frappachino because they didn’t understand what a caramel mocha was. It was good though. We ended up doing the starbuck’s thing and chatted for awhile before we hit up our next destination, KFC.

I wasn’t really hungry at KFC so I didn’t really get anything. The prices are also equivalent to US prices as well.

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After KFC, we walked around the stores. It was a touristy area, so the stores were rather expensive. We enjoyed looking at the expensive price tags and not buy anything, it was great! We also say restaurants for Oktoberfest. It’s during our National Week, so we won’t be in the area to celebrate. Instead I’ll be in Guilian!

After KFC, we know it’s not American, but we went to this French bakery called Paul. It was very crowed and everything seemed to be expensive but I tried someone’s bread and it was very tasty.

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Our final destination for dinner was Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut here is surprisingly very nice. It’s treated as an upscale restaurant where we had to wait 45-ish min. for a table and the tables were set and everything. The menu’s were pretty as well. Very fancy I’d have to say.

pizza hut

And our pizza was also very tasty, along with our seafood pasta which had squid in it! It tasted so good!

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Definitely too much American food in one day though. I think that can last me until I get back to the US, but it was a great day of just hanging out and eating. Oh eating, its so wonderful.