Which city in China has the most food trolling voices?

Beijing and Hangzhou are the cities with the most desert food in my mind.

Beijing has roast duck, Hangzhou has Dongpo pork, and all the other cities touted as "food deserts" have their own great food, but they're still unlucky to make the list.

What food is holding them back? We've found the "targets" of the Internet's culinary universe in a sea of complaints.

The worst offenders are traditional snacks from around the world. These "hidden delights", which are often found in dilapidated Syrian-style alleyways, are often a source of frustration for tourists who have traveled far and wide to find them.

Snacks that get a bad rap usually fall into one of two categories: out-of-character "xxx how can you do this" snacks, such as hot-dried noodles without sesame sauce; and local foods that are less acceptable to foreign tourists, such as old Beijing favorites such as bean juice and bao mou.

In which moment

did you find it to be a "food desert"

By analyzing netizens' complaints about Beijing and Hangzhou, we can actually summarize the complexity of people's emotions about the "food desert.

Taking Beijing as an example, people's complaints about the city focus on certain foods, such as lo mein, roast duck and fried noodles. While these foods count as local representatives to Beijing locals, they are not very convincing to outsiders with different tastes.

Media personality Liu Chun has also explored Beijing snacks on Weibo from the perspective of an outsider. In the comment section of that microblog, foods such as fried liver, preserved fruit and pea butter were the subject of criticism.

(Source: Weibo)

Taking Hangzhou as an example, criticisms of "Hangzhou food" have focused on a lack of understanding of the flavors of the cuisine. For example, the relatively high heat of Hangzhou Gangtai, light, sugar and vinegar and other words, from which you can more or less see some full of **** sex speech "I do not want to lose weight, but Hangzhou is too bad" "sugar and vinegar mouth of the food how can I eat".

It is true that there are thousands of reasons to be fat in this world, but there are countless versions of reasons to be thin.

It's just that being forced to starve yourself thin is a bit especially tragic.

From what netizens have said, when they traveled all the way to Hangzhou, they found that the more popular the place, the harder it is to eat the food. That's because people repeatedly mentioned the queuing old New White Deer restaurant, as well as the three-steps-a-street-shot Hubin.

This scene-stealing description is more than a little chest-thumping.

And in Beijing and Hangzhou, we also found "takeout" among the keywords for the scene. The term "food desert" is not just an evaluation of a city by foreign tourists, but also a deep-seated complaint by those who live in the city every day.

Workers whose bodies have been emptied by their work on a daily basis are always looking for a meal to get their blood back. But whether it's the tangled process of choosing a meal or the meal that doesn't really taste good at the end, it's hard not to feel that the food in this city is just not friendly enough for the people who live here.

This also leads to all the vacations that become a reason for them to go out and travel or come home to explore the food. Life in faraway places is called life, and life close by is just a part-time job.

In the comments section, we also found a number of residents living locally, lashing out at a city. "There is no desire for life" "The most ordered takeaway is salad" "Takeaway is an IQ tax" ...... a city The disappointment that the city brings to people is probably the most painful life lesson written in the most understated words.

From these words, we can also read people's expectations for food, and the contrast that reality brings to them.

When young people are attracted to a city by its beautiful propaganda films, but find that it cannot satisfy their simplest culinary desires, they can only call the city a "culinary desert", which is their most helpless cry.

What are the criteria for judging a "food desert"

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In fact, in the process of discussing "food deserts," we have also discovered a new problem -- we all have different definitions of what a food desert is.

Media scholar Lou Jian, a Hangzhou native who settled in Beijing, has been eating in the "desert" for decades, according to our selection above. But he raises a question -- when people talk about food deserts, are they talking about local food or locally available food?

(Source: Weibo)

The contradiction is more apparent in the big cities of Beijing and Shanghai.

Shanghai came in at No. 4 in this selection of food deserts. When people praise the city's food culture, French, Italian and Japanese and Korean cuisine are all top choices. But in tweets trolling Shanghai, local dishes and xiao long bao were also the subject of much criticism.

Why is Beijing, with its many excellent Beijing Office cuisines, still in the running, asking for first place in the food desert?

Another point of contention in the discussion of culinary deserts is the price tag associated with the cuisine. In threads discussing Hangzhou's food (the really good kind), many people mentioned the Jinsha Hall -- an upscale restaurant with an average price of 743 yuan.

Wang Xuanyi, author of "State Banquet and Family Feast," comes from a family in Zhejiang. Her impression of Hangzhou cuisine is that it is euphemistic, and its value lies more in showing the sincerity of its hosts.

She wrote in her article, "An eggplant, after dried scallops, crab meat, water chestnuts and so on various materials and methods of steaming and frying over, simmering, simmering, stewing, dipping through the gravy, seafood and so on, and then presented in an inconspicuous gesture, serving is still only a plate of eggplants, as the master of the smugness, please eat some eggplant, and then finally waiting for the guests to say to say, "Ah, what kind of eggplant is this that tastes so good?"

But such sincerity usually comes at a high price. Compared to today's popular tastes, the Hangzhou and Honggang cuisines, which focus on sincerity, are a bit too insular.

But a city that boasts of good food is a bit too cold if it always uses dishes costing several hundred dollars per person as a facade to attract visitors. If you really want to please tourists and young people, you still need affordable food that meets the tastes of the general public.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary workers, the real food is a really tasty takeaway when you work late at night.