Our story
A love letter to Berlin's noodle shops.
Berlin Chinese Food Map started from a simple frustration. Every time a friend visited, we'd end up sending the same handful of restaurant recommendations over WeChat — losing photos, forgetting addresses, and disagreeing about which place really had the best beef noodles.
We tried a Google Maps list, then a shared spreadsheet, then a Notion doc. None of them captured what mattered: where to actually eat in Berlin if you grew up with Chinese food.
So we started this project. It's open-source, non-profit, and built around a simple idea — the people who eat at a place should be the ones describing it. Restaurant data lives as plain YAML files in a public GitHub repo, easy for anyone to read, fork, or improve. The app is free, ad-free, and stores nothing about you.
It's a love letter, really — to the small noodle shops, the family-run Sichuan kitchens, the late-night dumpling spots that don't show up in Google's top picks. If we've helped you find your next favourite, that's the whole point.
