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Ten cities, ten ranked lists

Every list works the same way: the guides decide who qualifies, the diners decide the order, and the method page shows all of it.

Japan

Tokyo
Top 101

The deepest list on the site — ramen, sushi, izakaya and washoku, judged by a city that argues about all of it.
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Thailand

Bangkok
Top 101

Street-level Thai cooking, serious coffee, and a French scene that punches far above the city.
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Singapore

Singapore
Top 101

Hawker-bred obsession with detail, plus the region’s densest run of good Japanese and Italian.
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Hong Kong

Hong Kong
Top 101

Cantonese cooking at its most exacting, and a dense, vertical restaurant city around it.
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Japan

Osaka
Top 101

Japan's kitchen — less ceremony than Tokyo, more appetite.
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Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur
Top 101

Malaysian, Chinese and Indian cooking side by side, plus cafés that take roasting seriously.
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South Korea

Seoul
Top 101

Korean cooking in its home market, plus the café culture that went on to take over the world.
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Taiwan

Taipei
Top 101

Taiwanese cooking, tea houses and a café scene with an unusually loyal local following.
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China

Shanghai
Top 101

Shanghainese and regional Chinese cooking — read, unavoidably, through visiting eyes.

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China

Beijing
Top 101

Beijing local cooking and the regional Chinese restaurants the guides keep returning to.

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