Criticisms of Xin Tian Hao Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家) in Prague

The following is a review of Xin Tian Hao Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家), by a customer.

For a start, the name of this Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家) is so pretentious. It reeks of a craving for grandeur, wealth, privileges, exclusivity, money, desirability, a sparkly lifestyle, all these are things that are not attained here at this establishment. Woe to the owners of this restaurant, that they call themselves HAO (豪) but they certainly do not have the table settings, furnishings, and other facilities to go with it. Even the paper napkins of the restaurant are of the crude, rough type and as for the salt mill, pepper mill, the containers of soya sauce and chilli sauce are not even made of glass- they are plastic, which is inferior. I am not saying that there is anything bad about being cheap and tacky, but fundamentally all these tacky elements destroy the name of the restaurant itself. So the founder of this restaurant aspires to such high levels of wealth, privilege, grandness, but never got there, he/she has always fallen short of it.

I am critical of this restaurant’s branding/ logo. It just looks like the graphic designer hasn’t done any work on it at all. They have a dire identity crisis as this is a Chinese restaurant offering sushi which is Japanese, not Chinese. As for the meal that a friend and I had, it is not restaurant-grade at least by the standards of Britain, France and China. It is nothing that I couldn’t have cooked, for myself, at home, and almost all of my cousins cook more delicious food than that, at home. They have never even worked as chefs. They all work full-time, doing something else unrelated.

My friend was reading a book at some point. Lighting was inadequate so I actually switched on a torch at the dinner table. It is neither the romantic candelight sort of dim light setting, nor the bright Chinese restaurant sort of light intensity, to make a book readable.

I conclude that I do not want to go to Xin Tian Hao Restaurant (新天豪酒家) in Prague again. It does not do any justice to China and its richly varied cuisines.

I have a problem with Zheng Cookery 小郑家常菜

I went online looking for any information relating to the Chinese beef broccoli dish 炒牛肉片西蘭花 .

Xī lánhuā chǎo ròupiàn

The internet gave me Zheng’s cookery channel: 小郑家常菜.

Today, according to YouTube.com, about 3160 YouTube account holders already subscribed to this cookery channel. For Youtube, they display the text: “西兰花炒肉片是一道经典家常菜，西兰花拥有极高的营养价值，富含膳食纤维，和肉片一起炒制，荤素搭配更合理，更营养健康。“

I had high hopes for the free video. However, I find it very difficult to view this Chinese-language video about broccoli beef (西兰花炒肉片).

Sometimes, whatever that’s being filmed is really unclear, blurred, it just looks like a mess. It is horrible. This is a nasty mess. I cannot see the food. This is hideous. Unfortunately, I believe the producer(s) of these cookery videos will need to spend more effort, more time, making the correct settings to use the video camera correctly, so while the cameraman shoots the video, at least what comes out will be clear.

This is very devastating to me. I can’t watch it. I know that the Chinese food itself is good. I am trying to explain this dish to friends of mine who are Russian, Uzbek, Belorussian, American, South African, and Dutch. But this video is horrible. I really struggle with it. I fail to use this video, for my friends. Unfortunately, it means that next time, I shall avoid seeing any video from Zheng Cookery小郑家常菜.

It may sound really condescending of me, but I hope they will learn to use the video camera to use it better.

A Western European person feels baffled by ‘Czech’ or pseudo-Czech goulash

It has been said that: “What the hell is goulash? So I’ve been living in the Czech Republic for five years, and I am still not sure what THAT IS. Don’t get me wrong. The taste of it is pleasant. WHATEVER IT ACTUALLY IS.”

The apparent accomplishments of Chef. José Miranda

At a party in Prague we met chef. José Miranda. It seems that he is also known as chef José Rivera. He showed me some photos of his work, ooOoOh that looked mouth-watering and I was already drooling. So you might like to give him a thought then, when it comes to wedding catering? Chef. José Miranda – https://dkppcz.com/ I am not affiliated with him in any way. It is not like I’m referring people to him so that I end up with commission money as a big fat cut. I just love weddings and people gathering together! About DKPP – Domácí Kuchař Party Planner

I was looking for a carrot… I got a helicopter.

Oh! Parts of the beginning of chapter 12 of “New Jerusalem News” by John Enright is “absolutely fascinating”? How so? Explain! ! !
I didn’t know what that food was – what they are talking about. So I had to look up images in some kind of an encyclopedia. 

Don’t get me wrong. I love bivalves in general. To eat them, not to use them for decoration. Scallops… … my friends fed stir-fries of scallops with pods of peas to me in Hong Kong. Delicious. Oysters and clams are ok. Mussels are ok. 
I had no idea that the book existed. I went onto google. I wrote: “relative culinary merits of…” so, for example, if anyone wanted to compare roast beef with roast lamb; if anyone wanted to compare this pie with that pie; if anyone wanted to compare broccoli to leek; if anyone wanted to compare Lancashire hotpot with Irish hotpot; if anyone wanted to compare a watermelon with a banana; if anyone wanted to compare gravy with cranberry sauce; but I didn’t find Lancashire hotpot with carrots, meat, and potatoes. I found a helicopter. 
Would you rather get a carrot, or a helicopter? In the TV show “Hunter Street”, the adopted daughter Anika even said that Argentina was the same thing as Antartica, which I found really hilarious. She’s so cute. Especially when she was f**king around at the local library, pretending that she was totally clueless about the fact that the method of getting from the ground floor of the library to the third floor of the library was to walk upstairs to get to the third floor. I love her nonsense. She is very lovely and pretty too. Well, if you follow Anika’s principle, then a carrot is the same thing as a helicopter. Hilarious.