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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

McAtlas with Gary He

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

James Beard award winning photographer and writer Gary He tells us about traveling to more than 50 countries across six continents, all to document and photograph one of the most popular fast food chains in the world: McDonald’s.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, big question. What is the single best McDonald's menu item? Full access to the entire

0:07.8

internationalized menu, but you only get one. Oh man. I really love the egg bulgogi burger

0:17.0

in South Korea.

0:25.9

I think the first time I had it, I said to myself, this is on the Mount Rushmore of McDonald's international menu items.

0:31.3

Golgi is like a marinated pork, barbecued type dish that they have in South Korea.

0:36.8

And then, of course, they have figured out a way to make it in a McDonald's.

0:40.3

It's still on a patty.

0:41.3

They're not doing raw cuts and stuff like that and putting it on the grill,

0:45.3

but they're figuring out how to emulate the flavor through sauces and other wizardry.

0:49.3

And then they throw an egg on top and put it in a burger and it's delicious.

0:55.0

I think it's number one.

0:56.3

There is also, I can give you number two.

0:58.1

All right, number two.

0:58.6

Yeah, it's number two.

0:59.4

All right.

0:59.8

And number two is in Thailand, actually.

1:02.3

They have a corn pie al-a-moad.

1:04.9

And the pies are also deep fried. fried, and then they also do this thing where they will give you a bowl of ice cream,

1:12.5

a soft serve ice cream, split the pie in half, and then dunk it into the ice cream.

1:19.3

I'm Dylan Theris, and this is Atlas of Skira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible,

1:25.7

and wondrous places.

1:27.4

Today, I'm talking with James Beard award-winning photographer and writer Gary Heath.

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