I may go to China, specifically Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Huangshan next month. Haven’t decided whether I will go for sure. But if I go, the intention is to eat very well, everything Shanghai and Jiangzhe, from low end, mid range, high end. What are some of the better resources to research eateries in China?
I know Little Red Book. Trying to focus on quality rather than restaurants with Instagram-like fame with good looking dishes/ interior than actual flavors. I also read already @Google_Gourmet 's trip reports from last year. Any magazines, blogs, Yelp like service?
What are some of the seasonal dishes for June? Yangmei, I think. Probably too early for hairy crabs. What else?
Also, I may get some good huadiao. Where can I find the absolute best that I can get my hands on?
Back in the day I used to use dianping.com for research. Now it looks like you have to sign up? I am not sure…
I enjoy looking for specific dishes, and you can kind of do that on baidu
You might try searching for Suzhou restaurants (as an example), and see what comes up. I spotted this video from DavidsBeenHere. He often does a lot of research before going some place. I can’t vouch for this video as I haven’t seen it.
In this day and age, there is no longer one source to go to it seems and some of them have gone away.
For Wechat, I never really understand artificially dividing a group of people interested in talking about a certain topic into groups of 500 seems like quite inefficient.
so the previous question is for detailed research in advance. Now if let’s say if I am on a particular street full of eateries, and wants to pick the best/ most reliable out of them, or weed out the duds, quickly, any website / app that people use?