Certainly, this restaurant cannot be accused of selling its menu in excess.
A Chinese restaurant in Montreal goes viral for its “extremely honest” menu descriptions, which are posted with every dish.
Earlier this week, Twitter user Kim Belair posted on Twitter photos of some of Aunt Dai’s menu descriptions, which are written by the restaurant’s owner.
“Aunt Dai is my favorite Chinese restaurant in Montreal, but the REAL delight is the menu, with extremely honest comments from the owner,” Belair wrote along with images.
The dishes that Belair included in his tweet were Orange Beef, which seems to be “not so good” compared to the restaurant’s general Tao chicken and sweet and spicy pork strips, whose owner “He’s not a big fan,” because he’s different from the one he ate when he went to college in China.
The tweet also showed the descriptions for the beef with Satay sauce, which the owner “did NOT have a chance to try” when he wrote the description and the cumin beef, which the owner said is “very tasty”.
Since Belair posted the tweet on Sunday, it has been retweeted more than 9,400 times and liked it more than 66,500 times since it was published on Friday.
Feigang Fei, the restaurant’s owner, said today that online attention has brought more customers to Aunt Dai since Monday and Tuesday. After a radio interview on Wednesday, the restaurant received “several” orders.
“It’s very, very good for our business,” Fei said today.
Fei said he started writing descriptions because customers were unfamiliar with some of the traditional menu items and would order things they didn’t want.
“The whole point is to let people know what they’re ordering,” he said today. “It simply came to our notice then [and] very useful. I was so encouraged by them. I didn’t think I had to write comments for each article, but I was encouraged by them, their comments and their feedback, so I finished them all. ”
Finally, Fei said the restaurant wants to be “very honest, very loyal to ourselves and our customers.”
“We don’t want them to come with high expectations and then feel disappointed,” Fei said. “We are not always the best restaurant with food, but we try to do our best every day and satisfy our customers and sell nothing.”