Shanghainese Food Guide: 25 Must-Try Dishes in Shanghai
With the help of my Shanghainese colleagues, I've compiled a list of 25 things to eat in Shanghai that we love, for food pilgrims to experience what eating is like in our city.
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FOOD GUIDES
As you can probably tell by now, food plays a major role in our trips. Through careful research and planning, we find only the best local food experiences in every destination. We hate touristy restaurants so if you enjoy local food, then these guides will be helpful in planning your next food trip. We have many food guides to different cities around the world like Tokyo, Budapest, Seoul, and more.
Nagoya Food Guide: 8 Essential Nagoya Meshi Dishes
So special is the food in Nagoya that they even have a specific term for it. They call it Nagoya meshi, which roughly translates to "Nagoya food" or "Nagoya cuisine". It's a way of acknowledging the city's unique regional cuisine regarded as one of the best in Japan.
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World Cuisine Guide: The 12 Best Countries for Food
Some people travel for adventure, others travel for culture. We travel for food. It isn’t the only reason but it’s the single most influential factor in our choices of destination.
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Madrid Food Guide: 14 Must-Try Restaurants, Bars, and Markets
Madrid has its share of iconic dishes like cochinillo and bocadillo de calamares, but more than any one dish, what I enjoyed most about this city was its diversity of food experiences.
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Donostia-San Sebastian Food Guide: 11 Must-Try Restaurants
With all the delicious food you can have in this city, the one dish that perhaps best represents San Sebastian food is the humble pintxo. Similar to tapas, it refers to a family of small bar snacks that are typically skewered onto a piece of bread with a toothpick.
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Kyoto Food Guide: 14 Must-Try Restaurants
We love Kyoto. It's our favorite city in Japan. Tokyo and Osaka are incredible cities but Kyoto has everything we love most about this country – culture, atmosphere, history, and of course, great Japanese food.
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Kanazawa Food Guide: 10 Must-Try Restaurants
Sushi is my absolute favorite Japanese food in the world so I welcomed the opportunity to have sushi as much as I could in Kanazawa. It was fresh, available everywhere, and relatively cheap compared to other cities in Japan.
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Hiroshima and Miyajima Food Guide: 8 Must-Try Restaurants
With delicious dishes like Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki, anago meshi, and the juiciest and plumpest oysters tempting you at every turn, it isn't hard to see why Hiroshima is a favorite food destination for many Japanese.
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Fukuoka Food Guide: 6 Must-Try Hakata Ramen Restaurants and More!
I went on a food tour in Kyoto and according to my guide, when Japanese people travel for food, they usually go to one of three cities – Nagoya, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka. This was surprising to me because I had always assumed it would be Osaka or Tokyo, not a less visited city like Fukuoka.
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Lisbon Food Guide: 12 Must-Try Restaurants
There's a lot to love about Lisbon. It's a beautiful city with a passion for the arts and terrific food. In fact, so good is the food in Lisbon that National Geographic readers declared it the world's top foodie hotspot in 2019.
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Budapest Food Guide: 13 Must-Try Restaurants
In spite of its overwhelmingly gothic and neoclassical architecture, Budapest is an incredibly hip and trendy city. It's forward thinking in its approach to art and design and much of that creativity seems to have carried over into its food.
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Prague Food Guide: 9 Must-Try Restaurants
I don't have much experience with Czech food but one thing seems clear, roasted meat dishes heavy on gravies, starches, and root vegetables figure prominently in Czech cuisine. It's the type of food you'd expect from countries that experience harsh winters.
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Vietnamese Street Food Guide: 45 Must-Try Dishes in Vietnam
I ate my way through Sapa, Hanoi, Hue, Hoi An, Saigon, and the Mekong Delta with the goal of writing a Vietnamese food guide that showcased the best and most interesting dishes this country had to offer. This list of 45 is what I've come up with.
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Osaka Food Guide: 25 Must-Try Restaurants
Since 2014, we've been to Osaka a total of four times. Each visit gives us the opportunity to explore new restaurants and to continually update and refine this food guide. Our goal is to give you the best, most complete, and most diverse food experience in Osaka, and I believe we've done just that with the latest edition of this guide.
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Kuromon Ichiba Market: 10 Must-Try Dishes
Kuromon Ichiba Market is a covered market in Osaka's Chuo Ward, about a 3-minute walk from Nippombashi Station. It's often referred to "Osaka's kitchen" because it's where many of the city's chefs get their supplies.
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Taiwanese Street Food: 13 of the Best Night Markets in Taiwan
Anyone who's been to Taiwan can tell you that visiting a night market is quintessential to the Taiwan experience. It's such an important part of the culture.
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Taiwanese Food Guide: 45 Must-Try Dishes in Taiwan
Taiwan, with its wealth of night markets, is a country travelers love going back to again and again for the food. From hot pot to boba to lu rou fan to beef noodle soup, there is so much good food to be had in Taiwan and for cheap too!
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Taipei Food Guide: 13 Must-Try Restaurants
This Taipei food guide will show you where to have some of the best examples of delicious Taiwanese dishes like lu rou fan, shabu shabu, beef noodle soup, Taiwanese breakfast, and more.
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