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About Today’s Mealow
Today’s Mealow is a free food picker that chooses 3 dishes from real places near you.
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What it does
You answer six quick questions (what cuisine, which meal, how you’re feeling, what flavor you want, who you’re with and where, and what you don’t eat), and a little cat picks 3 dishes for you. Each pick comes from a real place near you, with the shop’s name so you can go and get it.
Who makes it
I’m Ziwei Yu, and I build it on my own. It started in China as a WeChat Mini Program called 今食喵 (the name means roughly “today’s food, meow”). In September 2026 I brought it to the web as Today’s Mealow, in English and Chinese, so people outside WeChat can use it too.
How the picks work
- It looks up real places around you on a map service: Amap (高德地图) in China and some nearby areas, Google Maps everywhere else. It doesn’t make up restaurants.
- An AI model from DeepSeek reads your answers and those places, then picks one dish that fits at each. When the map lists a place’s known dishes (mostly in China), it picks from those. When it doesn’t, the dish is a likely guess for that kind of place, so check the menu.
- Code removes any dish whose name matches something you skip. It can’t see every ingredient, so if you have an allergy, check with the place before you order.
- You don’t need an account. Signing in with Google just keeps your saved dishes and profile in the cloud.
Quick facts
- What it is
- A free food picker that chooses 3 dishes from real places near you
- How you use it
- Pick one of six ways to eat (a proper meal, pretty plates, staying in, drinks, dessert or fruit), then answer a few quick questions
- Where the places come from
- Amap in China and some nearby areas, Google Maps everywhere else
- Who picks
- A DeepSeek AI model, limited to the places the map found
- Things you skip
- Sent to the AI, then dish names are filtered by code. If you have an allergy, check with the place
- Where it runs
- The WeChat Mini Program 今食喵 (first built in May 2026) and the web app at mealow.app (launched September 2026, English and Chinese)
- Cost
- Free, no account, no ad trackers
- Who makes it
- Ziwei Yu, a solo maker
How the guides are written
I write the blog guides myself. They’re everyday advice on deciding what to eat, not medical or nutrition advice; for anything health-related, ask a doctor. They don’t quote studies or statistics, and they don’t name or review specific restaurants. Before a guide goes up, it’s checked against a written list of what the app actually does, so a guide never promises a feature the app doesn’t have.
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Contact
Email me at hello@mealow.app, or send a message on LinkedIn. My personal site is leshrac.online. Suggestions for the app or the guides are welcome.