# 在地人在臺灣 (LocalGuy) - Taiwan Local Guide

> A comprehensive local guide to Taiwan covering restaurants, attractions, hiking trails, and family-friendly destinations across all 368 townships.

Website: https://locguy.com
Language: Traditional Chinese (primary), English, Japanese, Korean

## What This Site Offers

LocalGuy aggregates and curates place data for every township (鄉鎮市區) in Taiwan. It uses Google Maps data enriched with rating analysis, suspicious review detection, and trending metrics to help users find genuinely good places.

### Core Features
- **Place Directory**: 368 townships × restaurants, attractions, cafes, bars, dessert shops, and more
- **Rating Intelligence**: Star rating analysis, review trend detection, suspicious review flagging
- **Trending**: Snapshot comparison to surface newly popular or declining places
- **Curated Lists**: Michelin Guide 2025, 500 Bowls 2025, classic food lists by category
- **Hiking Trails**: Taiwan's trails organized by difficulty — family trails, hills, peaks
- **Family-Friendly Hub**: Playgrounds, parks, family trails, and kids' games
- **Mini Games**: Food guessing, emoji quiz, district guesser, price guesser, and more
- **Nearby Search**: GPS-based discovery of places around your current location
- **Personal Tools**: Favorites, shared lists, trip planner, visit tracker

## Content Structure

### Place Pages
URL pattern: `https://locguy.com/p/{county}/{district}/{place-name}`
Each place page includes: name, address, rating, review count, category, Google Maps link, and contextual cultural articles from taiwan.md.

### County & District Browsing
- All counties: `https://locguy.com/f`
- County page: `https://locguy.com/f/{county}`
- District listing: `https://locguy.com/f/{county}/{district}`

Counties include: 台北市, 新北市, 桃園市, 台中市, 台南市, 高雄市, 基隆市, 新竹市, 新竹縣, 苗栗縣, 彰化縣, 南投縣, 雲林縣, 嘉義市, 嘉義縣, 屏東縣, 宜蘭縣, 花蓮縣, 台東縣, 澎湖縣, 金門縣, 連江縣

### Food Categories
Categories: restaurant (餐廳), brunch (早午餐), japanese (日式), korean (韓式), thai (泰越), western (西式), hotpot (火鍋), bbq (燒肉), seafood (海鮮), vegetarian (素食), streetfood (小吃), cafe (咖啡), bar (酒吧), dessert (甜點)

### Curated Lists
- Michelin Guide Taiwan 2025: `https://locguy.com/food/michelin2025`
- 500 Bowls 2025 (聯合報500碗): `https://locguy.com/food/bowls2025`
- Classic food lists: `https://locguy.com/list/classic/{slug}`
- Tagged lists: `https://locguy.com/list/tag/{tag}`

### Hiking
- All trails: `https://locguy.com/hiking`
- Family trails: `https://locguy.com/hiking/family`
- Hill trails: `https://locguy.com/hiking/hill`
- Peak trails: `https://locguy.com/hiking/peak`

### Family-Friendly
- Hub: `https://locguy.com/family`
- Playgrounds, parks, family trails, kids' games

### Games
- Food price guesser, calorie guesser, emoji quiz, district guesser, rating guesser, food memory, food origins, old place names, location songs, food songs, higher-lower, random wheel

## Cultural Context

LocalGuy integrates content from [taiwan.md](https://taiwan.md) (CC BY-SA 4.0), an open-source Taiwan knowledge base with 190+ articles covering food culture, nature, history, lifestyle, music, art, economy, and more. Place pages show relevant cultural articles based on keyword matching (e.g., hot spring places link to 溫泉文化, night market areas link to 夜市文化).

## Data & Methodology

- Place data sourced from Google Maps, refreshed periodically
- Rating analysis identifies places with abnormally high or suspicious review patterns
- Trending detection compares periodic snapshots to find rising/declining places
- All 368 townships in Taiwan are covered

## API

- Search: `GET /api/search?q={keyword}` — returns matching places with name, county, district, category, and badge
- Nearby: `GET /api/nearby?lat={lat}&lng={lng}` — GPS-based nearby place discovery

## Contact

- Website: https://locguy.com
- About: https://locguy.com/about
- Contact: https://locguy.com/contact