Jollibee

When it comes to Filipino fast food, you can't get more gargantuan than Jollibee. The phenomenally popular chain, which drops its first East Coast location in Woodside, Queens, regularly beats Western fast-food joints in the Philippines at their own game by taking predictable staples—burgers, hot dogs, fried chicken—and adding twists that belie the country's Malay-Spanish-Chinese heritage. The result: Spaghetti is sprinkled with hot dog bits, fried chicken comes with rice and gravy, burgers are heaped with pineapple and bacon, and fried meat rolls are dipped in a sweet-sour sauce. For the purist, there's pancit palabok: vermicelli noodles mixed with fried pork rind, shrimp, sautéed pork bits and hard-boiled egg. Not quite the Happy Meal you'd expect, but jolly enough to keep this bee buzzing busily in Queens.

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New York restaurants, Filipino restaurants