I got an extra freelance article to write today. I have to name my top 10 Asian restaurants in San Antonio. It's not easy. I have a couple of favorites, but I'll have to visit a couple more.
Odd question: if you did your top 4 or 5 first, but then used the old "here are 15 all co-existing on the second rung, and I can't choose just 5 or 6) - might that make it easier somehow and give you responsibility only for the top rung?
By the time I realized that I could pick a Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Indian and Laotian place, I had seven restaurants already to go. A few other categories I thought of were best Asian buffet, best ramen or noodle bar, best fusion, best sushi, best teppanyaki. So, by doing that, it's easy to fill in the blanks. But the guy who asked me to write the piece wanted best Filipino and that I don't really know. So, some homework (not to mention lumpia) is called for.