French food guide highlights Chinese cuisine

The delicious dishes from the top Chinese mainland restaurants have been made into La Liste. [Photo/China Daily]

And as international Chinese cuisine cooking competitions follow international judging criteria, restaurants will learn how to present dishes in sequence－beginning with a starter, followed by a main course and ending with dessert.

She also says that the food and beverage industry in China, especially high-end restaurants are more familiar with La Liste now thanks to promotion of the list over the past year, and she hopes that the new book will help make La Liste more popular among Chinese foodies.

In December 2016, 100 Chinese restaurants from Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan made it to La Liste 2017's top 1,000 eateries worldwide. Among them were 68 restaurants from the Chinese mainland, a jump of 45 percent compared with La Liste 2016.

Many Chinese restaurants on the list also improved their rankings. For instance, the Huai Yang Fu restaurant at Andingmen, in Beijing, was ranked 34 in the new list from 45 in the earlier one.

Xie says that the three co-authors plan to put out a revised version of its Chinese restaurant book based on the new list, which will also include top restaurants from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.