Chef David Chang Picks Tokyo As "World's Ultimate Food Destination"

Above, a view of Tokyo from the Skytree. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

One of the world's most celebrated chefs, David Chang, has picked Tokyo as the "World's Ultimate Food Destination".

Travel + Leisure wrote:

David Chang may be at the heart of New York's restaurant scene, but his food loving heart lies thousands of miles to the east—in Tokyo. 

In the most recent issue of Lucky Peach magazine, Chang makes the case that Tokyo—not Paris or New York or Bologna, Italy—is the world's best food city. As Chang says in the article, when it comes to a food lover's paradise, "Everyone else should just bow down."

This is not surprising, even to this unsophisticated Japanese food fan, since Tokyo is home to more five-star Michelin restaurants than anywhere else in the world.

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