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[msmemory_archive]

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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[mermaidlady]

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.