{"id":143036,"date":"2026-02-23T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143036\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:37:07","slug":"chinese-fast-food-chain-mixue-arrives-in-new-york-heres-what-it-tastes-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143036\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese fast-food chain Mixue arrives in New York. Here\u2019s what it tastes like."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WCC2DIG7EBH57DPHNON4HYOX4E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 The scarlet facade is hard to miss. Months after surpassing McDonald\u2019s as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/retail\/forget-mcdonalds-this-chinese-fast-food-chain-is-now-the-worlds-biggest-24b911b9?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqd5A1_wV_F05QZQqlAUO0V4KfKLlirx6SoTwwIcZQwBGNY4v4SC9NBG&amp;gaa_ts=6994f2ef&amp;gaa_sig=E0gtdgk9XKc9oPJ_opnIq96Nw63TlDLwP0JAh4liPYI7wF7Cv6PRaNaAiVqdK7DlsuMWCvt-Vlp7Oa9Wxi8CPQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the biggest food chain in the world<\/a>, Mixue arrived in the United States in December, with one of three locations landing between the drab exteriors and grubby sidewalks of Manhattan\u2019s Herald Square.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OEGVXX525ZGXXGGOPUEFCZFI2E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The timing was inopportune. When this reporter visited Mixue (pronounced ME-shway) for the first time, New York was trapped in amber, with subzero temperatures forcing many residents to stay home and wait out the cold. We were all thawing out. Who could possibly want soft-serve, milk tea and lemonade in weather like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The scarlet facade is hard to miss. Months after surpassing McDonald\u2019s as the biggest food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-143036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}