Good to know, but since Taiwan is in Asia and not Europe, it would be nice if we kept up with our neighbors. 
I’ve never seen any of those - with the exception of Dunkin Doughnuts - in Asia either but I’m guessing from your reply that they are expanding.
I think one factor might be that there is a limited market for certain things and the one that gets there first makes it less profitable for the next one to start in the same market.
Been seeing them for years, and in some cases well over a decade, in Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, China… 
As others have noted, some of them were even in Taiwan a decade or more ago and failed here while succeeding in neighboring countries.
Must be relatively new and/or I am blinder and older than I thought, probably the latter. But yea I never seen em.
If well over a decade is relatively new then yes, you are old. 
No offense, as I’m right there with you.
Sushiro does have better quality fish than Sushi Express (haven’t tried the other two), but what’s up with them having no pickled ginger?
Kura seems to be king right now, though I am also quite partial to the varied soy sauces and strong green tea at Hama Sushi.
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I think this is the big thing, although fashionable comes into play as well. Japanese and Korean are currently fashionable: lots of that style of restaurant. North American food, not so much. McDonald’s and Starbucks secured market share at a time when such chains were welcome additions to the restaurant scene here.
Chains try: Aunt Annie pretzels came and went and are now barely here again. But the North American cachet is long gone, I think, and unlike in Thailand say there aren’t enough homesick North Americans to gain a hold.
Original recipe is gone (mostly), and its replacement sucks ass.
The burger choice is rubbish. No zinger tower burger. Instead of this they have peanut butter tower burger. Why can’t we get normal burgers why does everything have to be smothered in peanut butter?
We might get a shake shack if we’re lucky. They are basically all over asia.
In general. TWs mos burger vs Japans is also way worse. Its 50% rice burgers and weird shite. Japans menu looks way more normal. I just had a look actually, basically all fast food chains menus look way better and normal in Japan.
That’s another place I haven’t been to in years. I’ve never tried it in Japan, but the few times I went to MOS Burger here I didn’t see the attraction at all, even within the context of fast food chains in Taiwan. As you say, too much rice burgers and weird shit. 
Aside from the occasional McDonald’s breakfast here, I basically use trips to Thailand to fulfill the several times a year I want to eat McDonald’s/Burger King. For whatever reason, both are way more edible than they are here IMO (and I think a fair bit more expensive). Last time I also had Taco Bell for the first time (as well as the second and third times), after being taken there by a couple of Mexicans funnily enough. It was pretty good!
I wish whataburger exists in Taiwan, but it seems they don’t really have too many of them outside of Texas. I ate Whataburger’s before my final departure from the us.
Am I the only person on this board who likes Burger King here?! It’s still just fast food of course, but every month or two, one of their burgers is quite tasty.
I think McDonald’s in Taiwan is better than the us, because they’re still using the older fries and chicken nugget, not one that morgen spurlock ruined in the US. Also Taiwan McDonald is cleaner and better run. Ice cream machine in Taiwan McDonald is never broken.
I used to go there semi-regularly when I first arrived in Taiwan, until I became more familiar with local food… and then started cooking at home because blurgh. 
The last time I went there for dinner, probably three or four years ago now, I felt quite nauseous afterwards, so I haven’t been back there recently either.
The breakfasts used to be quite nice, and I think better than McDonald’s. They just got rid of all the options I liked on Uber Eats maybe a year ago or less, and now I don’t bother anymore.
It’ll do in a pinch— it’s better than McD’s or whatever peanut butter mess the nearest Taiwanese place is serving, but when there are like 10 or 12 better fast food burger chains in the US, it would be nice if one could make its way here. And even in Taiwan there are a handful of better non-chain fast burger places. (There are threads on this, so I won’t get into it here.)
Yeah, Burger King does that (or did that) too, at least with the breakfast burgers. No idea how or why that became a thing, but at least they were pretty good about leaving peanut butter off if requested.
They seem absolutely convinced that this is the most American thing ever. I’ve even seen some places call it “American style peanut butter burger.” I guess they’re getting us back for what the US has been calling “Chinese food” for 100 years.
I like it, but i think they are missing a reason (for locals) to go there.
Macdonalds has their fries and macflurrys.
Kfc has egg tarts
Mosburger has their black tea (and pretty good fries imo)
Burger kings is lacking. Doesn’t help that they don’t have classic items like chicken royale and bacon double cheeseburger. BKs selling point for me is not many people go there so i can sit down.
Huh, for some reason I thought it started in New Zealand, maybe because KGB Burger here was the first place I noticed it. But nope, I guess it’s American.
Sure, it exists in America as a sort of novelty (as does just about anything you can think of atop a burger), but it’s not any sort of staple All-American burger topping. Taiwan acts like it’s right up there with cheese, pickles, or tomato.