The January issue of That's PRD is out now – paper-and-ink-form citywide and in digital PDF form. Chief Editor Tom Lee introduces the magazine:
Eleven years is a long time, especially by modern Chinese standards. Looking back to the very first That’s PRD Food and Drink Awards (when the magazine was still called That’s Guangzhou), I doubt whether any of the restaurants that took home accolades are still around. Time makes fools of us all, and it will be interesting to see – at least for those South China lifers – which of our 2016 winners will still be here to greet a new decade.
The F&B industry is a notoriously harsh mistress, one that more often punishes than rewards, so it’s always been a pleasure to participate in the Food and Drink Awards and absorb the merriment as restaurant and bar owners and managers get completely sloshed while being recognized for their contributions to growing the culinary milieu. We may not have the heft of Beijing and Shanghai down south, yet, but it’s certainly exciting to watch a truly international cuisine scene join Canton’s legendary home-grown delicacies.
Food has always been a major passion of mine, and it seems appropriate to sign off on an issue dedicated to eating. When I first started working for That’s PRD, I remember thinking, ‘Bugger me Guangzhou is provincial. Can it be that the quality of international restaurants and bars in China’s third-largest city is this abysmal?’ It’s been truly staggering to see what a difference three years can make, and while I’ll wager there’s a way to go till a non-Chinese eatery in Guangzhou or Shenzhen earns itself a Michelin star, one of my favorite things about living down south has been watching the incredible growth of the gourmet.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
> Guangzhou: Download the January issue of That's PRD here, or view it in your browser with Issuu here. To download previous issues, click here.
> Shenzhen: Download the January issue of That's PRD here, or view it in your browser with Issuu here. To download previous issues, click here.
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