Fast food is always lovely. It doesn’t take much time to be prepared and if they are good, they can be pretty tasty too! I am not a big fan of fast food or anything, but I thought it would be interesting if I write some reviews on the fast food business here in Melbourne since I need to eat some ‘fast food’ now and then, especially if I am late for lecture!

The McDonald’s across the Hibbs Hall is one of the places where I usually go to for a very-late-dinner after doing some insanely hard homework at 2 a.m. in Fenske Lab. Many people have told me that McDonald’s in different country has different set of menu. When I came to one of the “Yellow Arches” stores here in Melbourne, I immediately spotted three differences between the McDonald’s here in Melbourne and there in States. The 24 hours Macca’s here don’t have free soda refill. Also they sell waffle. And, they have ‘Sydney Stack’!  Honestly, I was quite disappointed knowing that free soda refill is not really a ‘habit’ here. But well, I am not really a soda drinker so that’s good. By the way, Macca’s is how the locals usually address McDonald’s and when I asked my friend why, she said it’s just to shorten it. As we know (or not), people here love to shorten words. Anyway back to the Macca’s! 

There was nothing special from the waffle, but the ‘Sydney Stack’ was quite unique. It had a beef patty, three slices of bacon, some lettuce, cheese, tomato, pickles, pineapple, and beetroot. It’s topped with BBQ sauce allowing the burger to leave a sweet taste in my mouth. It’s pretty bloody tasty.  

Now, let’s move on to a pretty famous Asian fast food located in the heart of Melbourne city. The place is called Don Don. It’s a Japanese fast food restaurant that sells curry, teriyaki, and some other Japanese foods except sushi.  This place gives you a totally new experience. It is literally a FAST food restaurant. You get in there, you order your food, you give your money and you get your food. When I came there, the food was even ready before I actually got my change.  It was less than half a minute that I actually got out from the restaurant and had a delicious tofu curry on my hand.

The tofu curry was served on top of fibrous white rice. It had a thick slice of carrot, a piece of cauliflower, some sliced pickled radish and two pieces of tofu. The curry itself was plentiful.  I devoured this delicious tofu curry in about fifteen minutes and was literally full with just $5.90. In Australia, you don’t simply get a lunch with six bucks. Well, except the two-dollars menu from Maccas which only offers you small French Fries and Cheese Burger!

Oh another rare thing that you would encounter in Don Don: red napkins! 🙂

I guess I’ll stop here for now, I’ll continue with more pretty darn yummy fast food on my next post!

Cheers!

Location: Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia