Certainly, this restaurant cannot be accused of selling its menu too much.
A Montreal Chinese restaurant goes viral for its “extremely honest” menu descriptions that are posted with each dish.
Earlier this week, Twitter user Kim Belair tweeted pictures of some of Aunt Dai’s menu descriptions, which have been written by the restaurant owner.
“Aunt Dai is my favorite Chinese restaurant in Montreal, but the REAL menu is the menu, with very honest comments from the owner,” Belair said he wrote next to the images.
The dishes Belair included in his tweet were orange meat, which is apparently “not so good” compared to the restaurant’s General Tao chicken and sweet and spicy pork strips, of which the owner “is not a big fan ”because it’s different from the version he ate when he was going to college in China.
The tweet also showed descriptions of Satay sauce meat, which the owner “did NOT get a chance to try” when he wrote the description, and of cumin meat, which the owner said was “very tasty”.
Since Belair posted the tweet on Sunday, it has been reposted more than 9,400 times and has been liked more than 66,500 times in Friday’s post.
Feigang Fei, owner of the restaurant, told Today that online attention has attracted more customers to Aunt Dai, starting Monday and Tuesday. After a radio interview Wednesday, the restaurant “received many more” orders.
“It’s very, very good for our business,” Fei told Today.
Fei said he started writing the descriptions because customers were unfamiliar with some of the traditional menu items and asked for things they eventually didn’t want.
“The whole idea is to let people know what they’re asking for,” he told Today. “It simply came to our notice then [and] very useful. They encouraged me a lot. I didn’t think I needed to write comments for each topic, but I was encouraged by them, their comments and their comments, so I finished them all. ”
Ultimately, Fei said the restaurant wants to be “very honest, very loyal to ourselves and our customers.”
“We don’t want them to arrive with high expectations and then feel disappointed,” Fei said. “We’re not always the best food restaurant, but we try to do our best every day and satisfy our customers and not sell anything.”