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Last Updated: Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 11:27 GMT
Tokyo 'top city for good eating'

Michelin's Jean-Luc Naret and friend hail Tokyo as top city for fine diningThe home of haute cuisine just got taken down a peg with an authoritative judgement that Paris is not the world's top city for good eating.

That distinction now goes to Tokyo, according to the bible for foodies everywhere, the Michelin guide. In its first ever edition devoted to an Asian city, it awarded restaurants in Tokyo a total of 191 stars. That was nearly twice as many as Paris can boast, and more than three times New York's total. Eight of Tokyo's restaurants won the maximum three stars - only two fewer than Paris itself. Another 25 got two stars and 117 one star.

To add to Paris's embarrassment, three of the top eight restaurants in Tokyo serve French food. Three more offer traditional Japanese fine dining, and the other two are sushi houses.

"Tokyo is becoming the global city with the finest cuisine, the city in the world with the most stars," said Michelin guide director Jean-Luc Naret.

Michelin's plans to assess Tokyo restaurants had caused controversy in Japan, where some commentators had doubted whether it would be up to the job.

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My opinion:

Today, more and more people are fastidious about their food, especially, natural food which contains valuable nutrients. I have never been to Japan, but I know that there are many kinds of delicious food, and most of Japanese pay a lot attention to the effect of food. So Tokyo is worthy of the name of top city for good eating. Japanese pork chop rice is one kind of their famous foods. In Taiwan, there are also many well-known Japanesque restaurants which are very popular for Taiwanese, even the foreigners. By the way, shochu, colorless but some scent, is another specialty. Have you ever tasted it? Maybe you can try to try!