I have been watching video restaurant reviews on TikTok (mostly Asian - I love all Asian food) and find that reviews in the following format give me the best idea of what a restaurant is like:
-panoramic shot outside the restaurant
-panoramic shot inside
-menu shot - I like photo menus and ordering list
-if restaurants have a delivery robot, it is cute to see food delivered by them
-close-up shots of food ordered, names, and ingredients
-descriptions of dishes with individual portion shots coming up to the camera
-opinions of why you like a dish and who else might like a dish
-to finish, if they have merchandise for sale like a sauce, calendar, language-learning CDs, children’s educational books from Daiso or Scholastic, pencils, pens, logo stationery, or chopsticks, that is a cute good-bye
Thanks filmmakers for the fun videos and restaurant ideas.
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France and developer of the Novgorod and Bento War Games
