Why is the egg weird? That’s pretty common in the US
Actually in America our building codes frown on electricity flowing throughout the premises, we usually try to keep it contained in the wires. 
In Japan, American style hamburgers and steak houses are hugely popular. Their hamburgers are on par but in a lot of cases their steak houses are far better than ours. It doesn’t help that they get Kobe beef and we don’t. I’ve also seen a few Tex-mex places in the Philippines.
In Japan there are Denny’s and Cocos…but there’s also Johnnie’s which I believe is a homegrown version of an “american style” restaurant.
It definitely gets the design and atmosphere right… but the food (this goes for the Dennys and Cocos as well) it’s like a game of telephone. Ex. A hamburger dinner- dinner roll for bun, hamburger patty more of a mound than a patty and maybe 4 or 5 french fries.
What are you counting as American food?
Pizza is fairly popular in Japan, and some of the toppings they use seemed pretty weird to me (I don’t mean seafood either, but stuff like slices of hard-boiled egg), but of course Americans didn’t invent pizza. I think the Japanese did get it from us and not directly from the Italians, though.
As for American chain restaurants that aren’t fast food, they do have Denny’s in Japan. I only saw one in Tokyo though, I’m not sure how widespread they are. IIRC the menu was quite different from that of an American Denny’s but to the best of my recollection it was mostly Western-style breakfast foods. I had the French toast.
I was very surprised to discover that Cafe du Monde, the New Orleans cafe famous for its chicory coffee and beignets, is a nation-wide chain in Japan. But again, is that American food or French food?
There’s a Japanese dish called omurice (“omelet rice”) that I would often see on the menu in Western style casual restaurants. It always made me wonder “Is this what they think we eat?” The Wikipedia entry has photos of some fairly classy looking versions of this dish, but if you search “omurice” on Google Images then that’s more what I remember seeing – an omelet with fried rice inside or underneath and ketchup poured all over it. So not gross or anything but it seemed like the sort of thing an American would only make if they had nothing but eggs, ketchup, and leftover fried rice in the fridge. It was my impression that the Japanese didn’t exactly consider this American food, though. Omurice is definitely Western-influenced and not a traditional Japanese dish, but it didn’t seem to be considered really “foreign” either.
My only experience abroad is Egypt, and we actively avoided any restaurants that seemed too American while there (though our traveling companions eagerly sought out the Cinnabon for their final breakfast in Cairo), but one thing I did find amusing was that no matter where you ate, the menus almost uniformly touted “American-style drip coffee,” and if you ordered it, you got a French press brought to your table.
I’ll never forget the time I ordered a “steak sandwich” in a beach bar in Akumal, Mexico*, and got a very thin t-bone served between two pieces of sandwich bread.
*I mostly did this on purpose to see what the result would be
If you order a steak sandwich in many places in the southern US, you get a chicken fried steak patty on a hamburger bun. I am disappoint.
It’s nothing like the Denny’s in America. We went to one in Kyoto one morning and to my great dismay they only had Canadian bacon. It got no better from there. It was expensive as hell too. I left hungry.
Let me repeat that - I let a fucking Denny’s hungry. After eating. I would have just ordered another 2 breakfasts but it was more than I could bear at that point.
Oddly enough, right across the street from the Kyoto Royal hotel was a little independent Japanese owned coffee shop that had a daily breakfast special of 2 eggs any way, real bacon, hash browns, toast, orange juice, and coffee for like $10. They must have learned over the years to cater to the hotel clientele.
That’s fantastic. They’re soooo close, but then throw in this bizarre little speedbumps that are just soooo wrong!
Yes, yes, sounds yum…
Wait…what?! Nonono…served with marinara sauce, and possibly ranch dressing. Thank you for your time. Next! (Although raspberry coulis dipped moz’ sticks do sound kind of good, in a stoner food kind of way…)
This is just a swing and a miss. I assume this is based off British food (being a curry related item), 'cause ain’t nothing like this in the US. Again, sounds delish, though.
By and large, their descriptions sound pretty authentic American casual dining, though of course their presentation and actual recipes are anyone’s guess.
I would never call it American food but I’ve seen it many times in Japanese-American places. It’s certainly not unknown.
London has The Texas Embassy. They put beans in the chili. Do I need to go on?
Really? Any place you can recommend on the north side? 'Cause I’d really love to try it, and I’m too lazy to cook curry…
It’s certainly become much more common here in Chicago over the last decade or so. Growing up, the first time I saw an egg on a burger was when I visited my cousins in Australia in the early 90s. Now, it seems every mid-market and up burger place has eggs as an option (which I love, but the success of the whole thing for me depends on a large-ish burger cooked medium rare, with eggs with runny yolks.)
I’m not as familiar with the current dining scene in Budapest, but in the late 90s/early 00s, there were a number of decent restaurants serving American food, and a couple oddballs. There was actually decent Tex-Mex in town (a restaurant called Iguana, owned by American expats, they made their own chorizo, salsas, tortilla chips, etc.) I don’t recall seeing any Southern-style American, though–mostly Tex-Mex, Southwestern, and classic stuff like burgers and Buffalo wings.
The size of the burgers is certainly authentic…
But, seriously? I have never heard of serving a burger with a fried egg on it this side of the Atlantic. Admittedly, I’m midwestern - it could be some East Coast thing I’ve never heard of.
ETA: I’m also somewhat amused at things like fajitas being “American” food. Maybe in Texas… but around here that’s still “Mexican food”. Maybe the lines get blurry if you’re far enough away?
Let me think about the north side and ask around, you know it’s Japanese curry, right? Completely different animal from Indian or Thai curry.
Off the top of my head the go-to place I know will always have it is the Mitsuwa food court, but I’ll look a little more…
Word, the Bird! Menu
I do now. I’m pretty adventurous, as long as there are no bugs or caterpillars involved.
In addition to fast food and Americana steakhouses, Brisbane has places where you can get ribs. The Smoke in New Farm claims “a smoker imported from the U.S. to ensure authenticity”. Here’s the menu. No eggs.
It’s by no means the only place you can get BBQ in Brisbane, despite the hype. I singled it out because it really plays up the US angle and nobody mentioned BBQ as yet.
I’d say that fajitas are considered by some as American in the same way that pizza and hamburgers are considered American. None of them originated in the US, but they were popularized there.
No bugs, I promise!
You’ll love it, really.