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I think if I were traveling in a foreign country on business, bad local imitations of my native cuisine would not be what I'd want for lunch: I would want excellent examples of the local foods.

So there is leftover Chinese food in the staff kitchen since we have a group here from a Chinese company. It's not "bad Chinese", it's reasonably decent American neighborhood Chinese food - but I am not from China.

Then again, I do remember being in Paris with other American high school students, who were desperate for McDonald's.

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On the other side of it, I used to work with someone who had visited China many years ago, when it was less open than now. The people shepherding them about kept serving them what they thought 'American' food was like, and it was apparently quite wretched. He finally got through to them by telling them he wanted to eat the same thing they did.

I once read a travel guide that gave a rundown on some of the restaurants in a foreign city, and concluded with something along the lines of "And for those wanting American food, McDonalds and Pizza Hut can be found..."

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On our first night in Istanbul, new_man and I were wandering Taxim Square, looking for a place to have dinner. We were accosted by an aggressive shoe shine kid, who, after the shine, offered to take us to a very good restaurant. He said something like "peesaoot", but my Turkish is terrible. He led us to... you guessed it... a Pizza Hut.

We laughed a lot and had dinner at the kebab place next door.