tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227935017432867819.post2705069177834870922..comments2024-03-24T03:42:36.374+08:00Comments on 吃喝玩樂 - Diary of a Growing Boy: Yummy Michelin-starred beefPeechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335468643735359783noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227935017432867819.post-25972172291075766032009-12-03T23:27:29.502+08:002009-12-03T23:27:29.502+08:00I'm not going into a debate about the merits o...I'm not going into a debate about the merits of the rating system used by WOM or any other guide. Ratings are always subjective, and in case of amateurs (myself included) not very "accurate" in terms of whether restaurants will score 5 or below on a scale of 10. In all honesty those types of places probably should close down quickly and don't deserve to survive.<br /><br />The "top 5%" you mentioned are actually places that I blog about, not places where I eat/approve. I eat a lot of cheap meals at my local cha chaan teng, McDonald's...etc but nobody will be interested in reading a blog about my last Quarter Pounder...<br /><br />I'm not in the habit of posting pricing, because in reality I don't pay for a number of my meals as some of my friends and I take turns treating, so often I don't see the bill. But it is fair to say that most of the Michelin-starred restaurants will run above $1,000 unless it is Chinese. Then you either go cheap (like I do) without the shark's fin/abalone, or really blow through the budget when those items are on the menu.Peechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10335468643735359783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227935017432867819.post-78969130178507371392009-12-03T19:29:43.667+08:002009-12-03T19:29:43.667+08:00For the benefit of, I suspect, most of your reader...For the benefit of, I suspect, most of your readers who do actually have to worry about these things, would it be possible to give sort of indication of the cost of these meals that you write about so lovingly? These sort of restaurants are places I need to plan the budget for. I know the wines are from individuals' cellars (so the corkage fee would be good to know too).<br /><br />By the way, I have been looking through my copy of your beloved WOM Guide, and for me the biggest problem is that on a scale of 1 to 10, the vast majority of restaurants are rated 6-8. In practice there are only 3 categories: Not Very Good at all (maybe 10% of listings 5 or less), Somewhere between OK and Good (85% of listings), and The Sort of Places where Peech eats (5% of listings).<br /><br />And those top 5% aren't well differentiated on price - the top range is $600 per head including a drink, but I suspect that many (or indeed most) of the Peech-approved places cost over $1000 per head in including a drink.<br /><br />There needs to be more accurate differentiation amongst the 85% rated 6-8 and more detail on the top-end 5%. The ratings are defined to be independent of price, but that's clearly not how they have been assigned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com