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1. When was the last time you ate fast food (Mos Burger, KFC, McDonalds, Subway, Lotteria etc.)? What did you eat? How was it?
2. Which of the major chains do you eat at the most often? What is your favorite product? How often do you eat there?
3. When you were a child, how often were you allowed to eat at fast food restaurants? Why?
4. Tell us about the first time you experienced visiting a fast food restaurant.
5. Which do you think is the healthiest fast food chain? Which do you think is the least healthy?
6. Fast food is a very competitive industry. Many of the major chains have tried to modernize their menus, their interiors and their image. Tell us about one way a fast food restaurant near you has changed. Do you think over the coming decades this restaurant will remain open? Why?

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Question 1

I ate lunch at Sukiya with my family last Sunday. We had gyu-don. I had kimchi in my beef bowl, with miso soup and salad. It was good. It had been a while since we ate there because of the coronavirus. I prefer Matsuya, but I haven't seen one since moving to Nara.

Question 2

I rarely go to fast-food restaurants. We sometimes go to Mos Burger when we are shopping at the Don Quixote plaza. A cheeseburger I guess. They advertise that their beef is 100% Japanese. I think that it's a little expensive.

Question 3

Never. We didn't have any fast-food restaurants in my town and my mother always cooked delicious food. There is another reason. See ensuing question #4.

Question 4

I was about eight years old. My family was away on a Sunday. My mother and I went to church. After we would usually have a family dinner, but it was just my mother and I. We went to a McDonalds that had just opened in my town. My mother tried to find the healthiest choices. She chose a filet-o-fish set with milk for a drink. The milk wasn't cold and the sandwich tasted very fishy. My mother didn't eat anything and said that she wasn't hungry. I went home and took a nap because I felt tired. I woke up feeling very sick and threw up. I had to go to the hospital to have an IV. I never went back to McDonalds after that experience. The next time that I ate McDonalds was 28 years later when I moved to Japan.

Question 5

I think that gyu-don restaurants are healthy. We have rice, onion, beef, salad and miso soup. I think that KFC is the least healthy. We eat fried chicken, biscuits with honey, cole slaw with mayo and drink soda.

Question 6

The Mcdonalds near me usually has a shrimp burger or teriyaki burger which are items that you would never see in America. McDonalds will always remain open because it is the largest fast-food chain in the world. I recommend Shake Shack in Shinsaibashi. It is a New York burger chain that uses the best ingredients and cooks everything perfectly. They have special sauces for their burgers, yummy crinkle cut french fries and delicious milkshakes.

Tough Vocabulary

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ensuing	続く
recommend	お勧め