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Restaurant Review!

McDonald’s l Sham Shui Po l Kowloon

Really it makes sense to do a bit of a talk about McDonald’s. What you may not realize is that McDonald’s all around the world serve different food and sometimes even the standby regulars taste a bit different.

My big disappointment is the fact that north American McDonald’s serve baked pies while they are still deep fried in Asia and Europe. Let me tell you, it makes a big difference. The filling is piping hot while the pastry is crunchy with little crisp blisters on them. What’s nice about Hong Kong is they are always coming out with limited edition pies to try out so once I found out they had a banana pie, I scrambled to check it out.

Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon which is an older neighborhood and a little bit on the run down side. What they do have going for them is a great night market that sells the unbeatable combination of spare electronics parts and second hand porn mags. There is also Golden Shopping Center (aka Golden Shower) where they sell tons of computers, games, and books. It’s taken a tragic slide of late as most of its business use to be for pirated software but with crackdowns, it’s lost much of its appeal. Also in the area is Dragon Shopping center where the local Ice Hockey association plays its games on a rink on the top floor. Oh wait! I’m on the email list for WIHO! That’s the WOMAN’s Ice Hockey Organization. No wonder their executive is so stacked with woman. They probably never said anything to me because Leung is a genderless name. I just figured it out when I was trying to write about this organization I was curious about. Anyways, for some reason a roller coaster goes through the rink.

I was in the area looking to buy a new router for the office and thought that I might as well check out that pie. They also had a grilled chicken sandwich with a peppery mayonnaise as the special sandwich but I was all here for that pie. It was pretty damn good and the banana wasn’t super mushy either. Sort of like a banana sauce you’d get on pancakes. It’s not all good though. I recently also had their raspberry dipped cone. As I was eating the cone, the raspberry coating would not melt in my mouth so this big ball of tart earwax kept building up in my mouth. I had to spit it out and pick it off the rest of my cone. This little girl kept starring at me like it was weirdest thing she had ever seen.