Need an API to categorize restaurants, then display in frontend

In elgg_restaurant_info table, there is currently a "Category" field instead of 
nationality we previously proposed. For example, for a korean restaurant, its 
category field may have this kind of string "Restaurants, Korean Restaurants, 
Pan Asian Restaurants, Family Restaurants". At one hand it made us a little 
difficult to categorize restaurants by nationality, but at the other hand it 
makes easier for searching to work if we have a search box at top.

So in the API to categorize restaurants, it needs to do some parsing first, we 
can have an all-nation list first like {korean, thai, chinese, american, 
russian,...}, during the parsing "Category" value for each restaurant, if we 
found a sub-string belong to this list, then take it out and put in another new 
list. Frontend will only need to display this new list.

We also put a search box at top. If user prefer searching a restaurant, then 
another API searches restaurants by comparing their "Category" value with 
searching words.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jt.xion...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2010 at 6:06

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