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Home cooking by app in China

August 9, 2016

Many Chinese place great value on a good lunch. Now, Beijing professionals can use the "Home Cook" app to order meals cooked by local housewives at home and delivered straight to the office.

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Home cooking by app in China

In 2014, a start-up in Beijing launched the "Home Cook" app, and it's become a mouth-watering success. Now, some 50,000 amateur cooks create dishes for a good 1.3 million registered users. Professionals can either pick them up in person or have them delivered within a radius of three kilometers.