OPINION: Paul Hickey - Hospitality, honesty and speedway
20 Jan, 2021 12:40 AM
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Rotorua s Paradise Valley Speedway. Photo / Sportsweb Photography
Rotorua Daily Post
Hasn t it been heartening to see our hospitality venues so busy over the summer?
We know they needed it after all the issues and losses over lockdown, and let s hope they can continue to flourish. And how good is it that there are some new ones popping up as well?
I was talking with friends last week and comparing some of our local restaurants.
We had similar thoughts about some locations, but then had opposing thoughts on others.
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By Jack Kulp
Jan 21, 2021
Feigang Fei is the owner of Aunt Dai, a Chinese restaurant in Montreal, and he likes to review the items on his menu…and his reviews can be brutally honest…meaning not all of his own reviews are positive. Some of his dishes, he claims, are “not the best”. He calls his orange beef “not THAT good, so it’s your call if you decide to order it”. And he makes it clear that he hasn’t even TRIED some of his dishes. It’s a riot!
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It’s a pity Cuisine Aunt Dai doesn’t deliver to New York City, London or Berlin, because it could clean up. Perhaps not as much for its Chinese-food creations as for the refreshingly honest, with gusts to brutal, menu comments by the restaurant’s boss which have caught the imagination of, among many other global media outlets, CBS, the Times of London, the Guardian and several German newspapers.
Cuisine Aunt Dai is an unassuming spot on St-Mathieu St., which since its founding seven years ago has attracted its share of contented customers. But all it took was a tweet from super-fan Kim Belair (@BagelofDeath) to bring the place and its website-menu liner notes into the sort of international spotlight enjoyed by the Joe Beefs and Toqués of the Montreal culinary scene.