A new study by delivery giants Just Eat has revealed Northern Ireland's favourite cuisine and dish.
Wanting to settle the age-old debate of what to order for your Saturday night takeaway, Just Eat conducted a sentiment analysis of over 10 million restaurant reviews across the UK.
Each gastronomy was awarded a popularity score out of 100 based on the positive sentiments surrounding each food genre, ultimately uncovering the most popular cuisine across the UK.
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Chinese cuisine was revealed as the most popular in Northern Ireland, with Italian reigning supreme in England and Indian taking the top spot in Wales and Scotland.
With a popularity score of 67.50/100, the Asian delight narrowly defeated Japanese cuisine - which came in second place (66.45/100).
Despite this, the most favoured dish in Northern Ireland was found to be chips, with a popularity score of 81.66/100.
Just 0.4 per cent behind chips in second place was the breakfast treat black pudding, scoring 81.32/100 on popularity.
To do this study, a sentiment analysis was conducted on an internal dataset of over 10 million restaurant reviews across the UK.
Once all reviews were collected, they were then pre-processed using Standard NLP techniques and fed into a sentiment analysis model with a custom lexicon to generate a sentiment score for each dish and cuisine, the lower the score means the lower the sentiment.
Following the collection of data, the sentiment scores of each cuisine and dish in each region and district were ranked in descending order, thus uncovering the most favoured cuisine and dish across the UK.
Data was collected between December 2021 and January 2022 and is accurate as of then.
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