Communist Vietnam gets first taste of the Big Mac


Vietnam now ‘on the radar’ for US franchises.

FOUR decades after the Vietnam war ended, US fast-food giant McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the communist country on Feb 8, aiming to lure a rising middle class away from rice and noodles.

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