Not wanting to risk another run-in with local food before having to sit on an airplane for many, many hours, I decided to stop at McDonald's and see if they had a veggie burger! They did - but it just turned out to be lettuce and special sauce on a bun! Fail!
Before hopping on the train to head to Yuka's shore house, I finally made good on my promise to experience another item off of McDonald's "weird foreign items" menu. Let's hear it for the Club House Mac! (It was exactly like a regular Big Mac except it was topped with a fried egg and a few slices of bacon! Which basically means that if my little brother ever reads this entry, there's like a 90% chance he'll be moving to Japan in the near future).
And despite being totally stuffed with food, I spied a poster for this badboy on the wall, and snapped a pic to remind myself to sample the Club House Mac, Japan's contribution to McDonald's international menu before leaving.
Then, back in Seoul later that afternoon, I tried Lotteria! Although it was started in Japan, it's the most popular fast food restaurant in South Korea. One Bulgogi Burger, coming right up!
It's okay to eat at McDonald's when you're traveling as long as you order one of the weird local sandwiches that you can't get at a McDonald's in the States.
Ever the intrepid fast-food connoisseur, I eschewed some of the finer Estonian eateries and opted instead to check out (Estonia's very own??) HESS BURGER. Mmmm...tastes just like home, except, um, different and deliciously weird. After I finished eating I noticed it was starting to get dark so I went back to Vana Tom to read for a while and take a little nappity nap.
After landing in Athens, we had a few hours to kill at the airport before our flight to Heathrow. When we got hungry an hour or two in, we couldn't find restaurants that looked good and in the end decided to go to McDonalds. At first we were bummed - we're in a foreign country and we're forced to eat something patently American. But then we took a closer look at the menu and discovered...
