Restaurant Review Sites in HK

[aquaman]

Useful food site

https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/

this is probably the most useless site. all 5* reviews are paid by the restaurant. any public negative reviews are removed.

[Trebor]

this is probably the most useless site. all 5* reviews are paid by the restaurant. any public negative reviews are removed.

Ive seen plenty of negative reviews on openrice

[travelem]

For general hotel or food reviews, I prefer to use online sites than asking questions on forum.

https://en.tripadvisor.com.hk/Restau...Hong_Kong.html

Also use Google reviews to double check restaurants.

[aquaman]

Ive seen plenty of negative reviews on openrice

lets dig further

Chuntey in Central https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong...-curry-r738408
a Openrice "sponsored" restaurant.
357 positive
1 negative
4.5 star on google map

[travelem]

I won't call openrice useless but shouldn't use it as bible. Should just take a look as reference, use it along with others and double check with others like TripAdvisor and Google reviews.

[SonicYouth1]

I won't call openrice useless but shouldn't use it as bible. Should just take a look as reference, use it along with others and double check with others like TripAdvisor and Google reviews.

Openrice is totally corrupt as well. I remember several times I tried to post a bad review of this Cantonese place in festival walk with several photos/description and it just kept rejecting it for no reason. And it's happened with other places

[newhkpr]

Openrice is totally corrupt as well. I remember several times I tried to post a bad review of this Cantonese place in festival walk with several photos/description and it just kept rejecting it for no reason. And it's happened with other places

And I got a review of a shit restaurant in Frankfurt taken down from Google Maps including notice to be sued. Reviews are generally utter bullshit. Everywhere.
My last company's shit CEO asked people to give five star Glassdoor reviews monthly.

[travelem]

And I got a review of a shit restaurant in Frankfurt taken down from Google Maps including notice to be sued. Reviews are generally utter bullshit. Everywhere.
My last company's shit CEO asked people to give five star Glassdoor reviews monthly.

It can happen in all online review sites. Agoda also once refused to post my comment. But most online review sites are still worth to have a look.

Just don't use just one site, use several sites together to cross check.

[aw451]

Openrice is totally corrupt as well. I remember several times I tried to post a bad review of this Cantonese place in festival walk with several photos/description and it just kept rejecting it for no reason. And it's happened with other places

True. You can definitely get negative reviews removed if you pay enough, and there is no indication of which restaurants this has happened.

Google maps is a bit better but these days many of the reviews are also paid. You can see usually by the high review to comment ratio (indicates the restaurant gave a freebie in return for the 5*) or the highly structured comments often with tons of emoji (paid content farming)

[newhkpr]

True. You can definitely get negative reviews removed if you pay enough, and there is no indication of which restaurants this has happened.

Google maps is a bit better but these days many of the reviews are also paid. You can see usually by the high review to comment ratio (indicates the restaurant gave a freebie in return for the 5*) or the highly structured comments often with tons of emoji (paid content farming)

Just look for any medical professional in Hong Kong, especially dentist on Google Maps. It's 5 star review galore. The best thing to do is to check any Google Maps review by looking at how many other reviews that "person" has done. If it's only this one dentist -> bot farm. If it's 3-4 reviews only, with one in HK, one in AU, one in US -> bot farm.
If it's 20+ reviews and many in the same location -> likely a human being. Is that human paid for? Who knows. Would have to read all their other reviews. But who's got time for that?

The average score is derived from all these though (the various bot farms + some humans) and are hence honestly freaking useless.