I was surprised when I ate at McDonalds going back to the state. Fries tasted wrong, chicken nugget tasted like compressed cardboard (no joke). I remembered growing up in the states the McDonald food was actually all right even if the restaurants were mostly ratty. They had the Arch Deluxe and that was delicious, so was the fries and sometimes I could ask if I can get dark meat McNuggets (sometimes they’ll do that for you). And now the McNuggets were uniformly crap, fries tasted soggy even if fresh (I do not know what they did with it), and while I liked the dip sauce that McDonalds in the US provided, the nugget itself was ok if fresh, crap if not.

If you choose meal option E in Taiwan you get a piece of really delicious chicken that comes with that packet you shake it in… I often went for that. Plus the ice tea weren’t super sweetened like they are in the states.