Name: US vs China Subway | Food Wars | Insider Food
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T07:02:21.000Z
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From calorie counts to portion sizes, we wanted to find out all the differences between Subway in the U.S. and in China.

Here in China, standard Subway subs come in two sizes, six-inch and 12-inch.

They've done us the favor of cutting our 12-inch sub in half.

In the U.S., our subs also come in two sizes, a six-inch or a 12-inch, also known as the footlong.

We're gonna measure both of these with a tape measure to make sure that those lengths are actually correct.

I would say it's like maybe a few centimeters off of 12 inches, but it's close enough.

Like, I don't think you're gonna notice a few centimeters of sandwich missing.

That's about 30.8 centimeters. 12.12598 inches.

Ours are the exact same size, five 12-inch subs cut into 15 pieces.

We used to have sub platters and party subs, but show's over, folks.

No more parties on this side of the Pacific.

We used to have party subs in the U.S., but Subway overhauled and streamlined its menu last year and now seems to have stopped offering them.

Somebody check on Joe right now, because I know he is devastated.

Moving on from subs, drinks at a Chinese Subway only come in one size, medium.

Subway come in four sizes, small 21 ounces, medium 30 ounces, or large, which is 40 ounces.

You may have noticed I said we have four drink sizes then only showed you three.

That's because on Subway's catering menu in the U.S., you'll find this.

This supposedly serves eight people, which would be 16 fluid ounces each.

Why is the recommended serving size for this lemonade smaller than the usual small size?

That's very suspicious, Subway, but I do love this lemonade.

So the large is supposed to be 40 ounces.

We're gonna measure it to see if I'm being lied to, basically.

The medium is meant to contain 473 milliliters of your drink.

The Coke is really dark, so it's kind of hard for me to see the numbers, but it did go slightly above 32 ounces, which is significantly less than the 40 I was promised.

It's meant to be 473 milliliters, but I just wanted to show you, look how much is missing from the top.

And if that's the case, it's missing over 50 milliliters of my soda.

Here's everything that you'll find at Subway China that you won't find in the US.

Here's everything that you'll find at a US Subway that you won't find in China.

Obviously, Subway's menu is highly customizable.

By combining different ingredients, Subway claims you can create over 2 million sandwiches.

I don't know if I believe that, but I also don't have the time and or money to prove it, so let's just say it's true.

Now, let's start with the foundation of any sandwich, the bread.

Now, here in China, we have a couple of options, and by a couple, I mean two, that you don't have in the US.

First is honey oat, and the second is parmesan oregano.

Now, it's on the menu, but of all of the stores that we ordered from, they all changed out the parmesan oregano for just regular bread.

So I don't know if they're offering it anymore or it's just still on the menu and they've forgotten to take it out.

And in the US, we also have exclusive bread options like artisan flatbread and hearty multigrain.

Once you've picked your bread, then it's time to choose your fillings.

These are all of China's exclusive fillings that you won't find in the US, starting with the black pepper thick-cut steak.

Oh, they weren't joking when they said thick-cut.

Here, we have the Italian sausage and the chicken thigh chop.

It's always the chicken thigh when it comes to chicken meat in a burger, because Chinese people, thigh is the juicy part, not the breast.

We've got salad dressing,  salami egg mayo.

I will need to ask for more salami next time.

Four pieces just doesn't cut it when you've got a six-inch sub.

I'm just gonna move swiftly onto the chicken teriyaki egg mayo.

It's the parent and child sandwich, because obviously chicken and egg.

Here, we've got the teriyaki chicken sandwich on honey oat bread.

The full house, which is tuna and chicken.

Oh, it's a good thing none of you can smell my breath right now.

And here, we've just got the bog-standard ham.

Save the best for last, our pulled pork limited edition sandwich with chia seeds in our bread.

I'm quite pleased with the amount of meat that's found its way into the Subway subs.

A little bit too sweet for my taste, but the pulled pork is there.

We have a ton of subs in the U.S. that aren't on the Chinese menu, so let's start with the classic sandwiches.

So we've got the big hot pastrami, buffalo chicken, chicken and bacon ranch, cold cut combo, meatball marinara, oven-roasted turkey and ham, steak and cheese, and the veggie patty.

A fast food meatball sub sounds difficult, so I kind of want to try it and see how it tastes.

This is a very heavy sandwich, I just want to say.

It reminds me of school lunch, like the smell of walking into a cafeteria when you're in seventh grade.

I love chicken, I love bacon, and I love ranch, so hopefully I like this sandwich.

There's just something about how the meat looks that's making my tummy hurt a little.

I think it's just the paleness of the chicken and bread.

Next, we have the no-bread-y bowls, starting with the black pepper steak egg mayo no-bread-y bowl.

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