{"id":97788,"date":"2026-11-05T23:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97788"},"modified":"2026-11-05T23:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:39:51","slug":"mouthing-off-mainland-chinese-fast-food-chains-are-creeping-into-hong-kong-but-are-they-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97788","title":{"rendered":"Mouthing Off | Mainland Chinese fast-food chains are creeping into Hong Kong. But are they any good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/05\/315d5242-7ade-408c-816b-4019e01690c4_6b38e472.jpg?itok=hNfYtK4B&amp;v=1793852760\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Earlier this year, mainland China\u2019s biggest hotpot restaurant chain, Haidilao, made news by announcing it would enter the Western-style fast-food market with <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Fresh Burger<\/span>, serving <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">pizza<\/span>, pasta, fried chicken and beef patties in buns.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Industry observers predicted that chains such as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">McDonald\u2019s<\/span>, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">KFC<\/span> and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Jollibee<\/span> might soon be shaking in their boots.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Although Fresh Burger has yet to debut in Hong Kong, several other mainland Chinese fast-food brands have recently landed in the city, albeit quietly. The lack of fanfare and publicity surrounding them is curious, especially seeing as many of them are from huge conglomerates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3373332\/mainland-chinese-fast-food-chains-are-creeping-hong-kong-are-they-any-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, mainland China\u2019s biggest hotpot restaurant chain, Haidilao, made news by announcing it would enter the Western-style fast-food market with Fresh Burger, serving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7127,107,32458,11986,97,3569,5231,10300,6157],"class_list":["post-97788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chains","tag-chinese","tag-creeping","tag-fastfood","tag-good","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-mainland","tag-mouthing","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}