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Bluebag

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 09:21 AM

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To determine which cities were most-closely associated with good food, respondents were asked to look at a list of subjects--including food--and indicate which ones they would find interesting in the city. Cities with the highest number of respondents saying "yes" to the subject "food" ranked highest.

It appears they're only ranking places where people think about food all the time.

My prediction therefore is that if this were the international "best place to sleep" survey, Chinese cities would rank high as well for exactly the same reason.

Thinking about it a lot and having good food available are two entirely different things.

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 03:26 PM

shanghai & beijing does offer nice and varied authentic chinese cuisines and affordablely priced compared to other international cities.

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 04:03 PM

well said Bluebag... Shanghai and Beijing should not be on that list... Especially Shanghai with its crappy sea ? food... most dishes smell like the Yangtze river

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 06:13 PM

Pretty much all of Shanghai's "seafood" comes from polluted freshwater fish farms in the Yangtze delta.

My list would be:

Hong Kong
Melbourne
Tokyo
Toronto
Singapore
San Francisco
Bombay
London

London would place higher if it weren't so freakishly expensive.
New York tugs at my heart with it's glorious pizza and street-dogs, but the extortionary tipping policy bumps it off my list.

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 06:31 PM

I second Hong Kong - their seafood really is fresh and from the deep sea. HK has something for everyone.

Funny how that survey rates Shanghai, though almost everyone on ShanghaiExpat believes it should not be on the list.

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Ah Beng

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 07:31 PM

gino wrote:

well said Bluebag... Shanghai and Beijing should not be on that list... Especially Shanghai with its crappy sea ? food... most dishes smell like the Yangtze river

I agree, local seafood's crappy except hairy crabs. Choose restaurants that served imported seafood.
There are actually tons of non-seafood traditional chinese cuisines available that's fit for royalties. Some of the recipies had been past down for generations, hence the imperial banquet.

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Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 08:25 PM

Any top 10 list with Shanghai on it is total B/S. SH must be the world leader in shitty restaurants.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 12:05 PM

New York is By far Number one in the World...followed by New Orleans... Paris...San Francisco.... Montreal.....after that it doesn't matter

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 12:46 PM

when people think of "cities" they think of a big metropolis. For native food, my favourite "cities" would be Toulouse, Dijon and any of the cities in Provence in France, and also Palermo in Italy. And yes, I am a fan of French food! I also like the food in Marrakesh, especially in the main square. I've always thought their street food surpasses anything this part of China can offer.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 04:47 PM

Shangstar wrote:

I also like the food in Marrakesh, especially in the main square. I've always thought their street food surpasses anything this part of China can offer.

Emphasis should be on "this part" maybe - had lunch in Nanjing the other day. Out of twenty-five dishes on the table, at least twenty were good. The other five were probably good as well, if you like eels and duck feet and cow stomach Very Happy

Shanghai is just the worst ... oily, sweet, overcooked tasteless slop. Chewed halfway thru my napkin one night without noticing ... A few places are bearable but if any city could put the world off chinese food, it would be shanghai.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 05:36 PM

Shanghai should no way in hell be in the top 50. Even Chinese all think Shanghai food is rubbish. The only Chinese that truly like Shanghai food are the locals, and that is just because their taste buds have been tricked all these years.

Sure there are lots of restaurants in town, but they are all just second rate Hunan, Sichuan, French, German, etc joints.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 08:28 PM

leidelaohu wrote:

Shangstar wrote:

I also like the food in Marrakesh, especially in the main square. I've always thought their street food surpasses anything this part of China can offer.

Emphasis should be on "this part" maybe

Yep – totally agree. I am sure China as a whole has a vast number of superb street food markets, probably millions of them, and cheap as chips, but in Shanghai, anything central, cheap, and tasty is being replaced by giant, golden buildings selling re-heated factory-made food.

vcxz wrote:

dog penis and skin i will not try again.... these are more korean/north west foods.

Reminds me of that English proverb “You are what you eat”….

Shanghai may have food from all over the world, but the survey was supposed to be about eating "well", not eating different things. I find most places that serve international food are rubbish, and that applies to any country. But Chinese food in China is of course the best. Indian food in India is the best. French food is best in France etc.

I miss being able to catch a cheap flight or drive to places like Dijon in France, and tucking into some hearty home cooking in a farmhouse restaurant with decent wine, followed by a night of passion, followed by strong fresh coffee in the morning with croissants and pain au chocolats, perhaps some shopping, and then going back home before the gf notices.

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 08:50 PM

Shangstar wrote:

I miss being able to catch a cheap flight or drive to places like Dijon in France, and tucking into some hearty home cooking in a farmhouse restaurant with decent wine, followed by a night of passion, followed by strong fresh coffee in the morning with croissants and pain au chocolats, perhaps some shopping, and then going back home before the gf notices.

Very nicely done Very Happy

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 09:34 PM

my best experiences: Tokyo, HOng kong, Paris, New york, Chicago, San francisco, sao paolo, cape town. maybe the moment and the hungry also count.

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Posted: Oct 19, 2009 - 01:22 AM

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All you people are a bunch of f-ing tourists and you bore me - please don't list F-ing Barcelona or London - so LAME get a life and stop reading travel brochures - my best eating experiences have all been in Tokyo especially Takanodababa where this hot Jap chic taught me how to eat with chop sticks

God this friggen prick is back in another thread.... Now he will tell us all to suck his dick because it tastes better than the food there. Someone please ban this clown.

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Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 12:25 PM

hairy crab is not seafood, its from fresh water.
haha..know nth about chinese /shanghese food..

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Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 12:27 PM

why everyone rate tokeyo so high? for japanese food? im not a fan of japanese food, what about other food? how is the variety ?

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Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 12:32 PM

havnt been tomany places, my list is paris,any place in france, milan, any place in italy, melbounre,sao paulo, dalas, hangzhou. hangzhou food is the best chinese food for me. Smile

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Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 11:50 PM

for most of the people i know. i have to say most shanghaineses have no clue what good food really means. no question - NYC is numero uno!

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Posted: Oct 23, 2009 - 12:49 AM

Probably the Global Recession really messed up the world's food quality, which made Beijing and Shanghai actually made top 10?

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Posted: Oct 29, 2009 - 04:18 AM

Beijine isn't in top 1000

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Posted: Oct 29, 2009 - 07:20 AM

Totally agree that Shanghai and "best cities to eat well" do not go together. Shanghai food in general is sh*te, it's an on-going struggle every day to find food I like here. Even the "good" Western restaurants sometimes struggle to make the grade in terms of quality, realistic pricing and service. I thought KL may have made the list though.

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Posted: Oct 29, 2009 - 08:24 AM

I think this ranking is rigged. What about the chili crab in Singapore? My rank of top asian cities (ex-Japan) would be HK, Taipei, & Singapore. I could go to any random restaurant in any of these cities and get better food than I've had in all the years I've lived here.

Aside from the Beijing Duck, Beijing is worse than Shanghai (I think even the locals would admit this) and Shanghai shouldn't be on the list to begin with, it sucks so much. The only city in the mainland that could even compete would probably be Shenzhen but then HK is close by so...

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Posted: Oct 29, 2009 - 09:33 AM

If you like Southern Cooking GZ is OK

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Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 02:25 PM

food in shenzhen and HK very boring..there is no variety except the sichuan food, cantonese food and western food...yet in shanghai, you got food from everywhere in china.