How to find local food and how to do it when traveling.

What you must experience during your trip must be local food. But where is the local food? How to choose is a very important problem. After all, the restaurants in many online celebrities are not very delicious now, and many people may not find authentic local dishes.

Brush APP and website

When it comes to finding a restaurant, many people's first reaction is public comment. When reading comments, in addition to praise, people usually take a fancy to bad reviews. After all, praise can be brushed, and bad reviews are relatively objective except malicious slander. Judging by yourself can basically prevent lightning strikes.

I have to say, the comments of public comments on domestic restaurants are still of reference value, but not necessarily abroad.

An easily overlooked application is Instagram. Before I went to Kaohsiung, I searched for labels with food on ins and found many delicious foods.

Generally, in big cities in Europe and America, Catway Eagle is recommended, and the top restaurants are not bad. One more thing, foreigners generally don't like to use filters to shoot food, and the photos taken are very real.

In Asia, local food apps are recommended. The first one is OpenRice, which is usually used in Malaysia, Singapore or Hong Kong and Macao. The comments are basically in Chinese, and they are also very friendly to China people.

In this APP, every user is a "gourmet", and "gourmet" is divided into six levels. You can focus on restaurants praised by "senior gourmets", which are basically worth a try.

If you go to Taiwan Province Province, please remember to love food. I asked my friend in Taiwan Province Province what food APP she had before. She recommended it, saying that local people would use it to find food. It was really reliable to try it several times in Taipei.

MangoPlate is the most recommended local food review website in Korea. This website does not make a profit from advertising, nor does it charge users and businesses, so it is very objective to ensure that all comments on the platform come from the real experience of users. It has a mobile phone application that can switch to English. It doesn't matter if you don't know Korean.

Let me talk about Japan again. Speaking of Japanese local food raiders website, it must be Tabelog. Tabelog focuses on the food field and has no brushing system. They are all eaten by ordinary Japanese. Needless to say, it is authoritative and referential.

Since we are talking about APP, we should also mention two city guide APPs, LV City Guide and LUXE, and the food recommendations in them can also be followed.

LV city guide Xi Youjun also wrote an article specially before, which contains a lot of gold.

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

Looking for local people

Locals naturally have the most say in the most authentic food in this city. Most of the food guides are from local friends, and every recommendation is accurate.

Now the online world is so developed, Weibo, Zhihu, Douban ... any one can be a platform for you to meet new friends. When an invited friend goes out to travel, it is better to chat with 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. To tell 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 if you don't like chatting with strangers? I recommend two practical methods. 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. I usually like watching vlog, and I can pay attention to youtuber all over the world. In fact, they can also be your dietary guidelines.

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

Go to the right place

First of all, it is clear that there is basically no food in the scenic spot that will surprise you. For example, the chances of finding food in Wangfujing Street, Kuanzhai Lane Street and Heye 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-time businesses.

On my trip, I often encounter some unexpected foods. I don't arrange any trips at all in a day. I 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.

In the process of finding gourmet shops, it is also important to keep a clear head and keen observation. Although these shops do not have high-grade decoration, they often have first-class taste. It's best to see which one has the most when eating. You must be right to go in.

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

The other 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 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, 36 euros in Europe, 40 dollars in the United States, 300 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, 200 RMB in Shanghai and 5,000 yen in Tokyo). If you can guarantee high-quality meals, you can get recommendations, so the restaurants on the bibendum list are extremely cost-effective.

On some of the apps mentioned above, in addition to daily food reviews, a 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 TabelogAward and Tabelog 100 Famous Stores every year. Compared with famous shops, TheTabelogAward will have higher gold content and influence, which is equivalent to the Oscar of Japanese food industry.

And MangoPlate in Korea. I suggest you look at the list of "TopList" recommended by the website editor. Western restaurants and barbecue shops have selected collections, 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, food variety shows and documentaries are also good choices. The shooting teams of these programs are prepared for you 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 Tongue Tip, Seeking Shunde, Xinjiang Taste, Flavor World, Flavor Origin and A String of Life are all of good quality. I took "Seeking Shunde" to Shunde before and didn't step on thunder.

Overseas recommendations, such as "Britain on the Tip of the Tongue", "BBC: Mediterranean Food Tour" and "Greedy Italy", can not only see the tempting food, but also learn a lot about foreign food culture.

In terms of varieties, for example, food players who specialize in street food have almost "eaten" all over Taiwan Province. In addition, how many issues of Kangxi Coming and College Students Coming are about Taiwan Province cuisine? You can go to them.

Not to mention the Japanese, pushing lonely food and watching Uncle Goro eat are all cured. Recommend a website: www.abachibi.com/kodoku, which integrates the restaurants visited by the protagonist in each episode of The Lonely Gourmet. Interested children's shoes can be seen.

There is also an older program called Little Dream Gang, which has been to several smaller destinations in Japan. The host Xiaomeng is the originator of eating and broadcasting, and it tastes delicious.

Mr. Bai's other variety "Eating on the Street" has been filmed in the second season, and each episode is devoted to the food of a destination. The selected cities are all great, such as Penang, Bangkok, Tokyo and Fukuoka, as well as Chengdu, Hongkong, Harbin, Xi 'an and Wuhan in China.