2017 was the year of preserved egg and pork congee in Shenzhen, at least according to statistics released by popular food delivery platform Eleme ('Hungry Yet?').
The savory dish was Eleme users' most popular order, along with a surprisingly diverse array of tidbits: spicy chicken burgers, chicken burritos, stir-fried pork with peppers, Beijing chicken wraps, Guilin rice noodles, chicken nuggets and more.
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Last year proved a very, very good one for the delivery platform: order volume grew a whopping 133.6 percent, while the total amount spent shot up by 155.2 percent.
Compared to people in other cities, the average Shenzhen user was willing to shell out more for food. Local residents paid an average RMB45.6 per order, close to RMB5 over the national average.
Shenzheners also showed a taste for nighttime snacking: 12.8 percent of orders came after dinnertime, a higher proportion than that of any other first- or second-tier city in China. In Beijing, for instance, late-night snacks made up only 6.4 percent of orders.
Areas around the city that ordered the most delivery include, in order, Shangmeilin, Hi-Tech Park, Huaqiang South, Huaqiang, Huaqiang North, Jingtian North... and an apartment-office-shopping complex in Southeast Futian District, Royal View City. In terms of order volume, the delivery-loving residents outranked the neighborhoods of Shangsha, Hongling and Sungang North.
In terms of gender ratios, male app users made 61 percent of orders in Shenzhen, and also spent 60 percent of last year's sum total. Which, depending on how you slice it, is either a worrying trend among Shenzhen's male population, or a call to action for the ladies.
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[Images via jy135.com, Shenzhen Evening News]
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