McDonald's Istanbul, Turkey

McDonald's
located across from the Sirkeci Metro stop on the #38 train
Istanbul, Turkey
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izgara tavuklu sandvic (grilled chicken sandwich) meal (sprite)
Cost: 7.57 YTL
Rating: 3 spoons

McRoyal (cheese burger) meal (coke)
Cost: 7.57 YTL
Rating: 3 spoons

We had just arrived in Istanbul, found a hotel for the night and headed out on the town. After walking around the Agyasofia and the Blue Mosque, we took the above ground Metro towards the Docks. Our goal was to make it to Asia in 15 minutes :-).

Turkey is the only country, I think where you leave one part of the country in Europe and go to the other part of the country in Asia in about 15 minutes.

We were really hungry as the last time we had eaten was on the plane; we noticed a McDonald's across from the train station at our stop. We venture in.
It was quite entertaining as we noticed a picture of the Employee of the Month on the wall. We asked to see him and the guy who was taking our order shouted back and by the time we got our order he came out and said hello.

It took quite a while to get our order as they were taking forever to get the order for three persons before us. And once they got to us, it took longer to get our orders as there was a little language barrier.

We finally got our orders and it was quite good; the Fries tasted just like it does in the U.S. The funny thing is that I usually don't eat McDonald's in the U.S., but I when I travel as it is much easier. It is also amazing at how much people in other countries eat a lot of McDonald's.
While we ate, an American couple from San Francisco, CA, stopped by and chatted with us. They were there for a week and were quite shocked and surprised when we told them we were leaving on the 6:05a flight to Frankfurt, Germany and then to Houston TX.

It started to rain quite a bit as we enjoyed our meal. Eventually, we got out of there and headed to the snack shop next door. By the way, there is a Burger King right next door as well.