Iñaki Ellakuría's plans in a Barcelona outside manual and selfie tourism. In What matters is the illusion (Destino 2013), the best Spanish diary written in recent decades, Ignacio Vidal-Folch recognizes one of his perversions: eating in small Chinese restaurants.

You can taste excellent beef with oyster sauce at Shanghai Stories (Aribau, 73), run by a friendly anti-communist. Although thinking about the Chinese New Year, I recommend Melo Jia (Corsica, 250), where chef Tao was a member of the Chinese Olympic gymnastics team in the eighties.