Fast Food restaurants in Asia
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BK’s Place
This place has a well-deserved reputation for good old-fashioned chips (French fries), with a variety of sauces, as well as good momos. It’s a tiny place, west of the Rum Doodle.
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Bundu Khan
Next door to Zanzibar, although not as funky, this restaurant still gets the thumbs up. The waiters are obliging and there's pleasant alfresco dining (indoor seating is also available). The Pakistani cuisine is tasty but can be fiery, so request less chilli if your taste buds aren't up for the ride. Alternatively, opt for the Chinese or fast-food offerings, which include chicken honey wings and chicken cheeseburgers.
The 'kids club' will keep your little monsters occupied while you steal some quiet time.
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Ayamku Restaurant
Brunei’s answer to KFC, this is one of the cheapest places in town to get a meal. You can get a big piece of fried chicken, some rice and a drink for about B$3. And the chicken is surprisingly good. One note: this may be purely coincidental, but many of the diners here seemed remarkably plump for Southeast Asians.
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Beatrix
Upbeat and cartoon-walled, Beatrix is just a peg above a student-style hangout. Its eclectic menu offers fish and chips, momos (Tibetan dumplings), Hakka Chow and a mysterious ‘con est soir’. It’s on Manik Chandra (MC) Rd.
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L'Etoile
This restaurant serves terrific French food and its all-day 'fast food' menu is good value. A set meal could be roast chicken with a choice of five sauces, a mini-salad and baguette.
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Roll House
In an alley just off MG Marg this hole-in-the-wall serves delicious kati rolls that upstage even the Kolkata originals.
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Popeye’s
Flies the flag for junk-food fetishists, serving an assortment of deep-fried fish and chicken.
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Food Junction
Spic-and-span food court in the Mid Valley Megamall serving all sorts of Asian treats.
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Snacks Stalls
Snacks stalls abound around New Market with puris on Bertram St, pastries round the corner outside CitiMart, espressos and pizza within the New Empire cinema and great dosas, fresh juices and momos directly opposite across Humayan Pl. For baked potatoes, cheap biriyanis, chow mein and Rs 30 curry-roti, look down nearby Madge Lane or further east around the Collin St/Ripon St junction-triangle.
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Hot Kati Rolls
Bengal’s trademark fast food is the kati roll: take a paratha roti, fry it with a one-sided coating of egg then fill with sliced onions, chilli and your choice of stuffing (curried chicken, grilled meat or paneer). Roll it up in a twist of paper and it’s ready to eat, generally on the street. Typical hole-in-the-wall serveries like Hot Kati Rolls specialize in this.
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Banh Cuon Gia Truyen
You might have to squeeze your way into a chair during the morning rush, but once you're settled, you'll simply have your food put in front of you, no questions asked. Delicate and tasty banh cuon (silky steamed rice crepes filled with minced pork, mushrooms and ground shrimp), served hot off the screen on which they are steamed, is about all they do here - and they do it well.
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Khaan Buuz
This is a nice Khaan Buuz, west from the Flower Center on Baga Toiruu west. But there are dozens of Mongolian fast-food restaurants and they can be found on every block in the city. They serve up industrial-sized buuz (steamed mutton dumplings), plus soups and bifshteks ondogtei (beefsteak with egg); many of these operate 24 hours. Meals cost around Tug900 to T1500.
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Zochin Buuz
There is a popular Zochin Buuz on Peace Ave, opposite the Russian Embassy. But there are dozens of Mongolian fast-food restaurants and they can be found on every block in the city. They serve up industrial-sized buuz (steamed mutton dumplings), plus soups and bifshteks ondogtei(beefsteak with egg); many of these operate 24 hours. Meals cost around Tug900 to T1500.
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FoodPark
FoodPark is the proletariat of the genre. The food selections here are not going to inspire you to move east, but they are numerous and cheap, and representative of the kind of ‘fast food’ Thais enjoy eating. To pay you must first exchange your cash for a temporary credit card at one of several counters; your change is refunded at the same desk.
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Hsiang Yang Fast Food
Chinatown is full of coffee shops and this is one of the most popular with an inexpensive Chinese buffet serving seafood, meat and vegetarian dishes in stainless-steel trays. There are also a collection minivendors peddling noodles, satay and popiah (rice-paper rolls). It's best to arrive around noon for the buffet, when the food is still fresh.
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Banh Ghoi
A banh ghoi is like a meat patty filled with pork, glassy noodles, mushroom and seasonings. A plate of three served piping hot in this fine little place is a tasty treat on a cold day. Tourists are starting to eat here but the friendly woman who runs the joint clearly values her regular patrons, and standards remain as high as ever.
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Mike’s Burgers
A little bit of Coney Island has been transplanted into Chiang Mai at this replica American burger stand. From the worn red vinyl stools, barely a barrier away from the moat-road traffic, watch the fry-cook flip burgers, or swivel 90 degrees for a view of Doi Suthep. There are other branches on Th Nimmanhaemin and near the night bazaar.
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Eat & Sip
If you have to eat and run, this nondescript restaurant has a hotchpotch of takeaway or dine-in fast food such as chicken burgers, club sandwiches and a satiating (if somewhat greasy) 'lunchbox' (quarter fried chicken, French fries and coleslaw). The innocent-looking preparations in the salad bar can be deceptively chilli-hot.
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Kua 'Aina
From the shores of Haleiwa comes this Hawaiian burger chain, which serves up the obligatory pineapple-topped burgers in a tropical-themed setting. Lovers of avocado, fabulous chips, savoury mahi-mahi fillets and innovative microbrews would be wise to pop by for lunch, even if only to watch salarymen dreaming of warmer climes.
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E-Mart Food Court
The food court on the 5th floor has sea views and a smorgasbord of cheap eats but is on the tatty side. Hidden away at the far end of the basement supermarket is a great takeaway section - sushi, kebabs, spare ribs, chicken and raw-fish platters (hungeo, raw ray) are around ₩120.
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Khana-Khazana Restaurant
By day this AC hotel restaurant serves up a tempting array of continental snacks such as burgers, pizzas and club sandwiches. In the evening there's an interesting variety of Indian, Chinese and continental veg and nonveg dishes including sizzlers, pasta, tandoori kebabs and Bengali fish curry.
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Berry’s
A cosy and cool restaurant with a shiny brass door and a swirling fish tank, Berry’s is a good bet in the evening, when the trade is busy and the white-tablecloth service comes to the fore. The cooking is classy veg and nonveg, with quality Indian plus Chinese and continental.
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Chief Burger
Western fast food, Afghan-style. This place is heaving at lunchtime, with local workers and students (there’s a ‘family lounge’ for women). There are burgers, pizzas and a great tandoori chicken, served on nan with fries. Quick, tasty and filling.
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Copper Kettle
The Copper Kettle has been a staple in Karachi for some time. Many locals rate the Pakistani food here as the best in town. There are also Chinese and fast-food offerings such as burgers and sizzlers. The prawn masala and nutty chicken salad go down really well.
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Bawang Merah
This Malay fast-food joint's tables along the new waterfront promenade are packed. Most of the diners have their backs to the bay, focused on the big-screen TV showing football matches or soap operas, but for Sandakan it's still café society.
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