Shanghaiist: New restaurants at Pudong Airport: (yes, there will be a BK)

chingiskhan

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:02:44 +0800

Yes, HK airport has a Burger King. It's the only branch in the whole of Hong Kong. The only thing they're missing is a Cheerway!

moneyinabox

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:58:18 +0800

I seem to remember Hong Kong having a food court with a BK as well. I could be wrong, all these massive Asian airports kind of blur into one for me.

T

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:41:43 +0800

Whining is part and parcel with being an expat, no? Especially with Hong Kong and their world beating line up of Banana Leaf, Popeye's Fried Chicken, Hui Lau Shan, Maxim's and Cafe de Coral.

chingiskhan

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:27:31 +0800

Burger King is a welcome addition to Pudong but in my opinion, HongQiao is still the clear winner with McDonalds, KFC, Elements Fresh - all it's missing is a Starbucks. I'm not sure it's about contracts, I suspect there's some guanxi stuff going on behind the scenes that keeps crappy Chinese coffee shops in the monopoly situation and the international franchises out at Pudong.

James Creegan

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:28:16 +0800

Fair enough, Element Fresh is a nice touch, but this line up still beats HongQiao in my opinion. I would guess that the catering contracts were sewn up at Pudong many moons ago and are only just coming up for renewal in T1. Anyway things are looking up, so stop whining!

T

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:53:41 +0800

How does crappy Hongqiao have better food options? Element Fresh, McDonald's, a KFC that isn't located all the way out near the MagLev?

EL JEFE

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:00:17 +0800

Great, now they just have to fix Terminal 1

T

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:36:47 +0800

I hope there's another cheerway! I love paying 55RMB for crap niu rou mian!