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When you arrive in Hong Kong, you can see there are restaurants everywhere. Some are easy to find, some are good. The real difficulty is to actually find the ‘good’ ones, especially if like me, you’re not a Cantonese speaker (or reader). You can ask your friends, but if you don’t know much people here, you’re pretty much lost.

I found a general rule that seems to work pretty well to identify good restaurants. I noticed that if you see a lot of people queuing regularly in front of a restaurant, there there’s good changes it’s a good one. Now that works fine and for the restaurant in places you visit regularly, but if you feel like looking for a particular kind of restaurant, or search in an area you want to explore, you’re screwed.

But not everything is lost. There’s a really nice site to help you in your quest of food. It’s called Openrice. If very well documented, lot’s of references and comments. It tell you what restaurant there’s in each area, the kind of food you can find in that restaurant. There’s usually lot’s of comments from users, so you can get an idea. Very often there also pictures posted by users of the site.

One little thing, the site is in Chinese. But our good friend Google is there, and the google translated site works pretty well.

Enjoy your Dinner.

Alex