Shanghaiist: Taco Bell bids Shanghai farewell

T

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:17:50 +0800

I'm with elpollorico, as long as they get rid of that stupid WHITE RICE (with cilantro) - give me red rice with my burrito please!

moneyinabox

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:05:17 +0800

Taco Bell Grande tried to mess with a proven formula by trying to bring a level of class to tex-mex, quite the oxymoron. I am suprised it lasted this long. But as we all know from Demolition Man, Taco Bell will eventually win the global restaurant wars so we'll see it back on this side of the Pacific sometime soon.

elpollorico

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:27:28 +0800

Chipotle! I'll pay 40 kuai for a football sized burrito.

T

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:46:15 +0800

In N Out - obviously not, since they don't freeze their meat. There's already been articles on shanghaiist about FatBurger - so I'm looking forward to that. I'm surprised that Hardee's (already some in the Philippines and Hong Kong) hasn't made in-roads to China. I do wonder why Taco Bell didn't just come in with a normal Taco Bell? I would kill for a Meximelt and a 8 kuai bean and cheese burrito.

shangpudi

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:14:01 +0800

McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Subway, Dairy Queen, I figured Taco Bell was next at bat with at least a double RBI. This is a bit disappointing how TBGrande gave up so soon, or maybe they started out with the wrong image considering lots of people assumed it was a knockoff. Wendy's Arby's In N Out Popeyes Jack In The Box, who's the next to feed the Giant Panda?

Micah Sittig

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:11:02 +0800

I went to 东方既白, Zhangjiang branch, for lunch today out of curiosity. ... Airplane food. If I'm not on an airplane, I don't want to eat it.

nanheyangrouchuan

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:36:26 +0800

@Mata hari Taco Bell in the US is 100% about counter service, gorditas and drive-thrus with an unusually large amount of car scuff marks (Taco Bell tastes best with at least a .15 BAC).

Andy Best

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:27:48 +0800

I went a couple of times but was suprised to find a kind of upscale looking tex-mex restaurant. When I spent a couple of years in Canada, at a time when the UK didn't have Taco Bell, I went and it was like McD's with tacos. Do they have these more conventional 'grande' places in the states now? As opposed to the take out counter type, you know. I also assumed it was 'fake' when i saw the format was totally different.

Dan Washburn

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:05:26 +0800

Hmmm. I always figured the Taco Bell Grande was a fake Taco Bell, so I never went.