In 2024, my wife and I were in Paris. One night we splurged on a Michelin-starred dinner with a view of the Eiffel Tower. It cost a lot, and neither of us enjoyed it. Maybe it was someone's favourite. It just wasn't ours.

The next day my wife found a tiny bistro on a side street through NAVER, Korea's biggest search portal. We had onion soup, octopus with eggplant and escargot, and loved it. The review that sent us there was written by another Korean traveler, someone who grew up eating what we grew up eating.

That's when it clicked. A great meal isn't about stars, price or a 4.6 average. It's about your taste, and a few people who eat like you know more about it than a thousand strangers.

In Korea, "Have you eaten?" is how you ask how someone is doing, and "Let's grab a meal" is how you make plans. Food is how we remember a trip, too.

So I'm building Forkprint. The goal is to find the people whose taste matches yours and show you the places they loved. That only works once travelers log what they eat, so today Forkprint is a travel food journal: pick the place, tap one face, done, even offline, with a stamp for every city. The more travelers log, the better the picks get.

Free on Android. No sign-up, no ads.

That's when it clicked. A great meal isn't about stars, price or a 4.6 average. It's about your taste, and a few people who eat like you know more about it than a thousand strangers.

In Korea, "Have you eaten?" is how you ask how someone is doing, and "Let's grab a meal" is how you make plans. Food is how we remember a trip, too.

Free on Android. No sign-up, no ads.

Forkprint

Your taste, stamped city by city.

Your taste, stamped city by city.