OpenRice
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OpenRice ( ) is a food and restaurant guide website headquartered in Hong Kong and operating in Asia. The website encourages reviews from its users, similar to Yelp and Tripadvisor, and ranks them based on the number of reviews posted and how many of them are recommended by the website's editor. , OpenRice lists approximately one million restaurants worldwide, recording about 1.6 million total reviews.
OpenRice ( ) is a food and restaurant guide website headquartered in Hong Kong and operating in Asia. The website encourages reviews from its users, similar to Yelp and Tripadvisor, and ranks them based on the number of reviews posted and how many of them are recommended by the website's editor. , OpenRice lists approximately one million restaurants worldwide, recording about 1.6 million total reviews.
History
OpenRice was founded in 19991 by Ray Chung Wai-man and his friends. The parent company closed only a year after launch, leaving Chung, who had previously been an IT executive, to keep the website alive using minimal resources at his home. In 2007, OpenRice was bought by digital media company JDB Holdings, which has since expanded the site into other Asian regions. , the website operates in Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Initially launched for Hong Kong (with the traditional Chinese version only) in 1999, the English version was later introduced in 2009.
See also
Chinese cuisine Hong Kong cuisine List of websites about food and drink Singaporean cuisine
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