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A Chinese restaurant in Montreal has gone viral for describing dishes on the menu.
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Feigang Fei’s comments on Aunt Dai’s menu are very honest – and very amusing.
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“Compared to our General Tao chicken, this is not that good,” Fei wrote about the orange chicken. “Anyway, I’m not a big fan of North American Chinese food, and that’s your call.”
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Author Kim Belair tweeted grabbed the menu, and it was retweeted more than 71,000 times.
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Fei told Insider he and Belair are likely to become best friends.
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While many restaurants try to entice visitors with an exaggerated description of their food, one restaurant owner has taken a distinctly different approach by lowering customer expectations.
Aunt Dai Chinese restaurant in Montreal, Canada, recently went viral for Mr Feigang Fei’s descriptions of the dish on the website.
The highlights of the menu, which includes both authentic and North American Chinese dishes, include:
“Compared to our General Tao chicken, this one is not SO good,” reads Fei’s comment on Aunt Dai’s orange chicken. “Anyway, I’m not a big fan of North American Chinese food, and that’s your call.”
“This is NOT an authentic Chinese food”, reads the description of black pepper shrimp.
For the sweet and spicy pork chops, Feigang wrote: “Since I have such high expectations for this dish, I’m not a big fan of our version to be honest.”
“This dish is very well known and we are not 100% satisfied with the flavor right now and it will get better soon,” Fei writes of the ‘water toothed chicken’.
He continues: “PS. I’m surprised some customers are still ordering this plate. In my opinion, our Sichuan Pepper Chicken Salad is better than this one.”
The amusing menu went viral after author Kim Belair tweeted some screengrabs.
Her tweet has already been retweeted 71,000 times, and many people have expressed their love for Fei’s comments.
The restaurant owner told Insider that he decided to add the descriptions about five years ago after opening Aunt Dai in February 2014.
“In the beginning, a lot of food on our menu was authentic, traditionally Chinese, and among the names, many of the customers were surprised that the dishes were too spicy, too greasy or had bones, so they did not touch the dish and it was a total waste, ‘Fei said.
And that’s when he came up with the idea of adding descriptions online to the menu. Fei started with 5-10 items, but his customers found it so useful that he wrote more.
Fei takes things a step further by creating videos of each dish and posting them on YouTube so customers can see the food before ordering.
The restaurant was available for takeout throughout the pandemic according to government guidelines (except Christmas Day), but Fei did not expect his menu to go viral.
Only when he was contacted by a German journalist was he even aware of Belair’s tweet, and Fei only believed it until he saw it himself. “I thought it was a joke,” he said.
Aunt Dai now had media coverage all over the world, and Fei and Belair struck up a friendship. The two exchanged phone numbers and chatted after Fei’s ‘crazy week’.
“It was really great,” Fei said. “All the articles mention Kim and I, so we’ll be tied up forever. We’ll probably become best friends.”
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