Hungarian food in McDonalds [Part II]

Some weeks ago we wrote about McDonalds serving Hungarian food in their restaurants in Budapest. Some days ago I visited McDonalds again, and though I ended up eating a BigMac Menu, I felt that I could try a Lángos (kind of Scone) for dessert. I am not a big fan of Lángos in general, but I thought I would give it a try anyway.

Lángos in McDonalds

The first message I got as I tried to order it was; they do not have more of the garlic and sourcream they normally use for the Lángos, so they told me that I could get something else instead. Having no clue, and asking what they recommended, I ended up with a package of ketchup together with my Lángos.

The Lángos did then not taste to bad, but I had a feeling that I was eating some kind of gum, quite hard to bite through and swallow. Compared to the Chicken Papricas burger from last time, this was a dream, quite similar to the level of the Golden Dumplings. The ketchup was not to bad together with it, and though I will not order Lángos in the future in McDonalds, this was not a too bad experience!

Hungarian food in McDonalds

McDonalds just started their new campaign where they serve "Hungarian" food in their restaurants. On the menu you can find Paprica Chicken hamburger, French toast (Bundás kenyér), Scone (lángos), Rissole (fasírt), Golden Dumplings and Porksandwich with horseradish. We somehow managed to drop by a McDonalds yesterday evening and tasted the Paprica Chicken Burger and the Golden Dumplings. I had great expectations, especially as Golden Dumplings is among my favorite desserts in Hungary.

Maybe you were hoping that you can skip the Hungarian restaurants as of now to eat in McDonalds... I would not do so! The two things that we tasted were not at all good, and worst of them was the Paprica Chicken burger. The dressing, or whatever was supposed to give the burger paprica taste rather destroyed it all. The Golden Dumplings tasted a little bit better, but still... it is not often I have eaten so bad dumplings. Today I read a review chef.hu were they mostly agreed with us concerning the two things we ate, but they were slightly more positive to the Rissole and the Porksandwich, so maybe we will have to try them later!

Restaurants in Budapest

McDonalds almost everywhere

As we have written in our article about fast food in Budapest there are lots of McDonalds restaurants in the city. Today while travelling with the metro in Budapest there was a public transportation map where you could see where all the McDonalds restaurants could be found. I though I would just count it, just for fun. As I finished counting I ended up with the nice number of 27 restaurants. Quite a lot, ay?

So, if you want safety and rather eat a tired Big Mac than some spicy and exciting Hungarian food, there are plenty of chances for you to bump into a McDonalds while you are in Budapest.

Photo taken on the metro of the map with my mobile phone (really bad)