One list per city. Only where the guides agree.
A restaurant enters a Top 101 when at least three independent published guides name it — two in Seoul, Taipei and Shanghai, where fewer guides can be read. The guides pick the field; the diners set the order.
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2–7 September 2026Ten cities
cities ordered by review volumeCityGuide agreementReviews
- Kuala LumpurMalaysia 227k Malaysian, Chinese and Indian cooking side by side, plus cafés that take roasting seriously.
- TaipeiTaiwan 203k Taiwanese cooking, tea houses and a café scene with an unusually loyal local following. 2-guide bar
- SingaporeSingapore 152k Hawker-bred obsession with detail, plus the region’s densest run of good Japanese and Italian.
- BangkokThailand 111k Street-level Thai cooking, serious coffee, and a French scene that punches far above the city.
- Hong KongHong Kong 77k Cantonese cooking at its most exacting, and a dense, vertical restaurant city around it.
- OsakaJapan 62k Japan's kitchen — less ceremony than Tokyo, more appetite.
- SeoulSouth Korea 37k Korean cooking in its home market, plus the café culture that went on to take over the world. 2-guide bar
- TokyoJapan 35k The deepest list on the site — ramen, sushi, izakaya and washoku, judged by a city that argues about all of it.
- ShanghaiChina 9.4k Shanghainese and regional Chinese cooking — read, unavoidably, through visiting eyes. Visitor picks 2-guide bar
- BeijingChina 4.2k Beijing local cooking and the regional Chinese restaurants the guides keep returning to. Visitor picks
- named by 5+ guides
- by 4
- by 3
- by 2 — the disclosed bar in Seoul, Taipei and Shanghai