The Big Mac, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Chicken McNuggets… for those of us who visit McDonalds in America, these menu items are all familiar. But overseas, McDonalds has released a number of foods that cater to local tastes, and many of these items seem kind of… unexpected… to many of us in the Western world.
In fact, some of these McDonalds items are even stranger than pizza in an ice cream cone.
1. Green Tea & Red Bean Ice Cream Sundae
Featured on menus in Hong Kong, the Green Tea & Red Bean Ice Cream Sundae is made with vanilla soft serve, and topped with green tea-flavored syrups and azuki beans, a sweet-tasting bean that is often used for desserts throughout Asia.
2. Breakfast Bacon Lettuce Egg McWrap
This seems pretty Westernized, with the exception of the lettuce. A similar chicken Caesar wrap is also available, but only for breakfast.
3. Samurai Pork Burger
The Samurai Pork Burger, featured on the menu in Thailand, features pork instead of a beef patty. A similar product, the Shogun Burger, is on menus in China.
4. Seaweed Seasoned Fries
These fries are seasoned with seaweed and salt, and you apply the seasoning yourself. Other seasonings include “chargrill” and French onion.
5. McRice
Popular in Singapore, the McRice is served between two fried rice patties.
6. Bubur Ayam
Chicken strips in a thick porridge with vegetables and hot peppers.
7. McSpaghetti
No, this item doesn’t hail from Italy, it’s actually on the menu in the Philippines.
8. McHot Dog Mega Sausage
Yup, that’s a hot dog. But it’s only available as part of the breakfast menu!
9. Pies
Breakfast varieties include ham and egg, and bacon and potato. Dessert pies run the gamut from banana to taro to pineapple.
10. Breakfast Pasta Soup with Egg and Sausage
This breakfast-only item includes veggies, sausage, eggs, and pasta in chicken broth.
11. Double Beef Prosperity Burger
Offered in Malaysia, this is part burger, part French dip sandwich. Each patty is dipped in a spicy pepper sauce, and topped with onions.
12. Filet-o-Shrimp
This ebi-burger (ebi is Japanese for shrimp) is served with secret sauce. The secret’s out, McDonalds. We know the secret is just Thousand Island dressing.
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@BradleyF81
The Prosperity Burger is offered in Singapore during Chinese New Year. It's nothing more than a McRib with black pepper sauce on it. Not that great. It did come with curly fries though, which I don't remember ever seeing at a US McDonald's.
The seaweed shaker fries are also available seasonally in Singapore, and I've actually never seen the rice burger ones here, but I rarely go to McDonald's anyway.
When I was in the Philippines I noticed that there was actual rice on the menu, which isn't surprising. Rice is a huge part of the Filipino diet. Any meal without it is viewed as incomplete by some. They also have a sausage called longanisa on the menu. It's a locally made sausage that comes in different varieties. Some are good, some aren't.
Doug Horvath
A great reason to visit the Golden Arches whenever you travel abroad; never know what you might find, and it's culturally fascinating!
Davidz
Yummy
naomz
so there's no spaghetti in the american (mcdo) menu?
JadieCandie
srry, no there isn't any spaghetti in the American mcdo 🙂
Krista
there should be some !!!
Johnny
What, no McPorridge?
mans
its dirty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!XD
weewah
Wonder what those 'buns' made of rice taste like? And it is interesting to see the cultural differences in breakfast items; Americans don't do breakfast pasta!
jo blo
that Samurai Pork Burger looks DELICIOUS!
McMama
I like the seaweed shaker fries and the Mc Rice burgers. I also love the breakfast biscuit mcmuffin in the USA and wish we had it here. I'm getting a bit bored with McDonalds here in Australia and would like to see some really interesting and healthier choices.
flapperboy234
mate thats dirty.
heylol
mclovin it 😉
MakanGuru
The McRice was a HORRIBLE failure in Singapore. At one point they resorted to giving a McRice away free to every person who ordered a normal value meal to clear their stocks. Even then people were turning away the free food because it was THAT BAD.
I really don’t know what source told you it was a success here because once McDonald’s cleared their stock of the McRice here it was quickly taken off the menu and has never returned since.
kitty
i've never seen it O.o
Jeff
MOS burger serves rice burgers in Singapore
karenkay
the ebi-burger looks really delicious to me 😉
maripopo
it IS really good! It's been one of my favorites while I've been in japan ^_^
maripopo
the shrimp fillet I mean~
hardcorefish
no one cares..
indestructableturtle
no it was jank.
Becki
The green tea and bean sundae would be delicious 🙂
I love adzuki beans and often have them on ice cream.
hola
wow that food looks like nasy crap well some of it! i would not eat it though, you never know what it could be made of!!! lol'z
kitty
i dont even think the rice burgers were from singapore.. look at the golden arches in the corner.. it says love ko 'to'. dunno which language that is in but in singapore its "i'm lovin it"
where does this fella get his research from =.=
bb1
There had been rice burgers in the Philippines a few years back. Yeah, it was a flop! And "love ko to" is the Tagalog version of the McDonalds' slogan
toysrus for life
im a toys r us kid.:)
PHguy
Was/still on the Philippines menu as well:
1. Prosperity Burger
2. McRice Burger
3. McSpaghetti
4. Chicken McDo w/ Rice <— even KFC and Wendy's offer that in the Philippines. Total unusual for Filipinos if a fastfood chain does not offer rice with meals.
danger mouse
hi can i have some cheese?im a danger mouse :/
Betty
Here in America we should get some of what asia has on their menu for McDonald's. The Green tea and red bean sundea sounds so good.
beats by dre store
crap well some of it! i would not eat it though, you never know what it could be made of!!! lol'z
batmans mum yum
im batmans mum
nyan
man, id eat the shit out of the seaweed shaker fries. i wonder if i can buy the packets online
Miguel Kids Pedraza
fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, lame ass jokes, it looks like i took a shit on the menu and they slapped a price on it.
yingyong
fail
Industricble terd
Heyyyy this looks jank!
eggbegger234
hello my name is eggbegg boy how are you
Jennifer Powers
Interesting!
yodel42
I’ve had a red bean milkshake in San Diego. Loved it. The tea/red bean ice cream should be really good. It’s a pity we in the US can’t get some of the things served in other countries at McDonalds Right now, the only reason I go there is for fries, coffee, or orange juice..
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William
this is crapy food
William
i know
B
well William know body asked you. you are a meany
B
I hate you
William
shut up u
Bruhs
Philippines also have rice and chicken value meals in McDonalds we also have twisted fries, chicken fillet ala king(like chicken alfredo) and the chicken fillet italiana(tomato sauce). There’s Mccoffee, Mcfloat But the foreign bloggers get really weirded out when the waiters/ staffs cleans up their tables because ordering and refills are the only things self service in our McDonald’s
jsnesbitt
I do not agree.
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