Rice Book

Many people try restaurants after reading online reviews, only to find that many are unsatisfactory. Friends' recommendations are always more reliable, and this restaurant guide is designed specifically for you. Ask your friends to recommend good places, and you can also recommend places you think are good to your friends.

Function Introduction

Fanben is a Wandoujia Design Award-winning app. Fanben was selected as the "Most Beautiful App" in China in 2013. The newly designed Fanben helps you eat better: - Food recommendations from thousands of professional chefs and gourmets - Easily get food recommendations and updates from friends around you - Automatically get a list of local food picks every day - Automatically get local food picks when you travel to other cities - Quickly find your favorite restaurant with just one click on a tag - Get personalized search results based on your friends' recommendations - Bookmark a restaurant and get a reminder when you're looking for a restaurant nearby - Share food with multiple pictures, which can be easily synchronized to WeChat and Weibo

Software Reviews

Fanben is popular with discerning foodies and opinion leaders, including Chen Xiaoqing, the director of A Bite of China. So, if you're determined to find authentic gourmet food and treat yourself, Fanben is the place to go.

Speaking of restaurant reviews, Dianping is probably the one that no user or similar app can avoid. I don’t know how you use it, but I usually think of it in two scenarios:

1. Arriving in an unfamiliar place, looking for a decent restaurant to have dinner;

2. I found a small restaurant that looks clean at the back door of the community. Is it worth a try?

Therefore, I like to compare Dianping to a portable food dictionary, which can be consulted when needed. The data accumulated over the years has made Dianping a relatively authoritative and serious reference system, which can ensure basic decency.

We’ve been talking about the “industry leader” for so long, but what about Fanben?

Recommendations from friends are clearly more reassuring than from strangers, and this is the original intention of Fanben: to build a platform to help people find reliable restaurants through their friends' reviews. However, the concept of friends has been expanded. If you know their appetite and know their spending level is similar to yours—OK, follow them on Fanben and make them your "dining friend."

Therefore, the information that reaches you through Fanben has been filtered. If we compare Dianping to a "food dictionary", then Fanben is more like a "food assistant" - recommending restaurants for you based on your taste and social circle.

The flat, large color block interface design is simple and beautiful

After all the hype surrounding Apple's WWDC presentation, if you still don't know what flat design is, you're completely lost! Just kidding, but the benefits of flat design are clear: information shines through, and aside from color, there are no visual distractions, resulting in a clean, beautiful design. As for the subtleties of the orange-red color, let Fanben CEO Chen Mengcang explain (see the "Entrepreneurs Speak" section).

Comprehensive and powerful functions without losing clear hierarchy

The homepage directly presents social updates, and you can discover delicious food just like browsing Weibo; the emphasis on opinions and the convenience of communication make it easier for people to generate content.

In Fanben, in addition to recommending/complaining about restaurants, you can also create various "lists", even a list with a strong sense of complaints such as "restaurants with the biggest difference between menu and actual food".

Although Fanben advocates that you can collect your own personalized food map through daily attention, and food is never a rush, right? But if you really don't know where to start, Fanben provides a clear "Find a Restaurant" function.

“Selected” is a “slow” section, with pictures and texts plus personalized recommendations. You can think of it as a food map.

Fanben also provides related functions such as "Guess what you like", "Ask a question", "Organize a dinner party", etc. If you need them, you will find them in the right place.

Thoughtful detail design

Some people say that the big block of color at the top of the homepage looks nice, but it takes up too much space. It doesn’t matter, it will be retracted and hidden when you scroll down.

Changelog

- Added recommendations for nearby restaurants on the homepage

- Newly designed search results list

- Added recommendations for nearby restaurants on the homepage

- Newly designed search results list