The "Black Pearl Restaurant Guide" is a restaurant evaluation system with Chinese food culture characteristics released by Meituan-Dianping in 2018.

The "Black Pearl Restaurant Guide" uses cooking level, experience and inheritance as the three major judging criteria, and is anonymously visited, scored and selected by many gourmet experts. So far, the "Black Pearl Restaurant Guide" covers 22 domestic cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Chengdu, Shunde and Shantou, as well as 5 overseas cities including Paris, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Bangkok.

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For the first time, Chinese food standards covering three dimensions: cooking level, restaurant level, and inheritance and innovation are proposed. It includes not only general evaluation standards such as taste experience, food combinations, and environmental atmosphere, but also health and wellness, food quality, and other evaluation standards that cater to the needs of consumer upgrades. The Black Pearl Restaurant Guide also specifically proposes evaluation standards with Chinese characteristics such as cultural inheritance and innovation integration. .

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