Dianping's "Must-Eat List": 15.5 billion real reviews selected in 10 years, adhering to "users recommend users".

On June 24th, Dianping's "Must-Eat List" in Shanghai revealed its tenth anniversary results, with a total of 1.55 billion real reviews participating in the selection over the past ten years. "For ten years, we have always adhered to the principle of using real user reviews as the basis, and have consistently refused commercial interference and artificial nominations," said Tao Xuexuan, Vice President of Meituan and General Manager of Dianping Business Unit. "The 'Must-Eat List' has never been a list that we created, but a list that real diners 'ate' out." The data shows that in 2026, there were a total of 130 million diners who wrote 400 million real reviews, selecting 4,279 food restaurants in 264 cities out of 5 million merchants for the list.