Myanmar KFC fans queue for hours for first taste of US fast food

Security guards wait outside the restaurant prepared for the KFC first branch restaurant in Yangon, Myanmar, 22 June 2015. KFC, US based Yum Brands, is preparing to open it's first restaurant in Yangon on 30 June 2015 as the first major American fast-food chain in Myanmar. EPA

YANGON (AFP) - Fried chicken aficionados queued for hours at Myanmar’s first KFC restaurant Tuesday, as the US restaurant chain became the latest big foreign brand to open an outlet in the long-cloistered nation.

KFC is the first major US fast food chain to open in the country as reforms and the removal of most sanctions since the end of outright junta rule tempt investors to a market of millions of prospective consumers.