it must be the local food that you must experience during your trip. But where is the local food? How to choose is a very important issue. After all, many restaurants in online celebrity don't taste very good now, and many people may not find authentic local food.

Brush APP and Website

When it comes to finding a restaurant, many people's first reaction is public comments. When reading comments, in addition to favorable comments, they will generally look at medium and bad reviews. After all, favorable comments can be brushed, and bad reviews are relatively objective except for malicious slander. You can basically judge by yourself.

I have to say that the reviews of restaurants in China are still of reference value, but not necessarily abroad.

An easily overlooked APP is Instagram. Before going to Kaohsiung, many delicious foods were found by searching for tags with delicious food on ins.

generally speaking, in big cities in Europe and America, TripAdvisor, that is, Catway Eagle, is recommended. The top restaurants are not bad. One more thing, foreigners generally don't like to use filters when taking food, and the photos are very real.

Asian regions recommend local food apps. The first one is OpenRice, which is usually used in Malaysia, Singapore or Hong Kong and Macao. The reviews are basically in Chinese, and it is also very friendly to Chinese.

in this APP, every user is a "gourmet", and "gourmet" is divided into six grades. You can focus on restaurants praised by "senior gourmet", which is basically worth trying.

If you go to Taiwan Province, please remember to love food. Before, I asked my friend in Taiwan Province what food APP she had. She recommended it, saying that all locals would use it to find food, and it was really reliable after trying it several times in Taipei.

MangoPlate is the most recommended local food review website in Korea. This website does not profit from advertisements, nor does it charge users and merchants. It ensures that all reviews on the platform are from users' real experiences, so it is very objective. It has a mobile APP and can be switched to English. It doesn't matter if you don't know Korean.

Let's talk about Japan again. Speaking of the local food strategy website in Japan, it must be Tabelog. Tabelog focuses on the field of food, and there is no brushing system. It is all eaten by ordinary Japanese people. Needless to say, it is authoritative and referential.

since we're talking about apps, let's mention two city guide apps, namely LV city guide and LUXE, where food recommendations can also follow.

the p>LV city guide "Xi You Jun" has been specially written before, and it contains a lot of gold.

In addition to restaurants, hotels and scenic spots in these two apps are more reliable, and there are lifestyle destinations such as bookstores, art galleries and museums, which are suitable for young artists.

Find the local people

The local people naturally have the most say in the most authentic food in the city. Most food strategies are asked for advice from local friends, and each one is recommended and accurate.

Now the online world is so developed, Weibo, Zhihu, Douban ... any one can be a platform for you to meet new friends. When a self-invited friend goes out to travel, it is better to talk to an old man sitting on the side of the road in the sun, the owner of a fruit stand, or the local people sitting next to him on the plane.

They are more likely to be your local food guides than taxi drivers and hotel receptionists. Telling the truth, taxi drivers and hotel receptionists don't have much patience and time to chat with you, so they are always perfunctory and not recommended.

What should I do if I don't like chatting with strangers? I recommend two practical ways. One is to ask questions in Zhihu and invite local gourmets to answer them. The other is to find a food guide written by local people in Douban, and the pro-test results are not bad.

There is another channel. You usually prefer to watch vlog, and you can pay attention to youtuber from all over the world. In fact, they can also be your food guides.

For example, KINDACOOL, a famous beauty blogger in South Korea, although her videos are mainly about beauty and wearing, occasionally there are videos about shopping and traveling. While watching her videos, she will often plant some restaurants and write them down in a notebook, so that she can arrange them when she goes out next time.

Go to the right place

First of all, make it clear that you can hardly find any delicious food that will surprise you in the scenic spot. For example, the chances of finding food in Wangfujing Street, Kuanzhai Lane and Hefang Street are too small. Secondly, those online celebrity shops that are well decorated and especially suitable for taking pictures are not necessarily delicious, and many of them are one-off businesses.

I often encounter some unexpected delicacies on my trip. I don't arrange any itinerary at all on one day, just wander around or take a bus, and try to live like a local instead of treating myself as a tourist. The chance of encountering delicious food is particularly high.

It's also important to keep a clear head and keen observation when looking for gourmet shops. Although these shops don't have high-grade decoration, they often taste first-class. It's best to go there at dinner and see which family has the most. You must be right to go in.

The most recommended places for foodies are around the old residential areas in the city. These places basically do repeat business, with low price and guaranteed taste. It is highly recommended, and the fly restaurant in Chengdu is a typical representative.

Another one is near the school. I don't know if you have noticed that many universities are full of delicious food. After all, students are not like tourists, and stores are definitely more inclined to do long-term business.

In addition, it is highly recommended that you visit local special markets, such as the morning market in Yanji, the night market in Taiwan Province, the cooked food center in Singapore and the weekend market in Europe, which are also food gathering places.

Look at the list

Compared with Michelin, the bibendum list is actually more informative, and its purpose is to commend those restaurants that are "delicious and value for money".

bibendum's selection criteria are within a fixed and relatively popular price range (for example, Europe is 36 euros, the United States is 4 dollars, Hong Kong is 3 Hong Kong dollars, Shanghai is 2 RMB, and Tokyo is 5, yen. If you can guarantee high-quality meals, you can get recommendations, so the restaurants on bibendum's list are super cost-effective.

On some of the apps mentioned above, besides daily food reviews, the list of restaurants will be published regularly. For example, we are familiar with the public comment on the black pearl list, and the restaurants on the list are relatively competitive.

Tabelog in Japan also publishes TheTabelogAward and Tabelog's top 1 stores every year. Compared with the top 1 stores, TheTabelogAward will have higher gold content and influence, which is equivalent to the Oscar in Japanese food industry.

There is also MangoPlate in South Korea. I suggest you read more about the list of "TopList" recommended by the website editors. Western restaurants and barbecue shops all have a collection of selections, so you won't trample on any one.

Documentary+Variety Show

If you think it's too much trouble to make your own food strategy, variety shows and documentaries are also a good choice. The shooting team of these programs is equal to helping you do a good job in advance, and the restaurants they choose are also very particular, so you can punch in with them.

In recent years, domestic food documentaries are getting better and better. For example, the series of Tip of the Tongue, Xunwei Shunde, Xinjiang Taste, Flavor World, Flavor Origin and Life Series are all of good quality. I went to Shunde with Xunwei Shunde before and didn't step on thunder.

Britain on the Tip of the Tongue, BBC: A Mediterranean Food Tour and Greedy Italy are recommended overseas, from which we can learn a lot about foreign food culture besides looking at the tempting food.

In terms of variety, for example, "Shangshang Player", which specializes in street food, has almost "eaten" all over Taiwan Province. In addition, there are several issues about Taiwan Province cuisine in Kangxi Comes and Did College Students Come? You can look for them.

Not to mention Japanese, it's easy to cure by pushing Lonely Gourmet and watching Uncle Goro eat. Recommend a website: www.abachibi.com/kodoku, which integrates the restaurants that the protagonist has eaten in each episode of The Lonely Gourmet. Interested children's shoes can be seen.

There is also an ancient program called "Little Dream Helps Not Help". There are several issues that go to relatively small destinations in Japan. The host, Little Dream, is the originator of eating and broadcasting, and it tastes delicious.

Another variety of teacher Bai, Street Food Fighter, has been filmed in the second season, and each episode is devoted to the food of a destination. The selected cities are great, such as Penang, Bangkok, Tokyo and Fukuoka, as well as Chengdu, Hongkong, Harbin, Xi 'an and Wuhan in China.