"There is a report today that Myanmar will soon have its first KFC store. It follows the first Swensen?s, Pizza Company and Lotteria outlets: all have opened in recent years. And they are all wildly popular. Long-time New Mandala readers know that I have offered occasional musings on the topic of fast food in Southeast Asia for many years, going right back to when downtown Yangon had its own ?fake” McDonalds. As I suggested back then, in August 2006, the fakes were on borrowed time: "I assume that when the Golden Arches finally makes its Burma push (which would be one obvious outcome of lifting US sanctions) these restaurants will go the way of the fake cognac and agricultural fungicide. They will get better, get legal or disappear." History shows that they struggled to survive and in recent years the imitation fast food joints of Yangon have run out of steam. Unless I?m mistaken, they are all gone now..."