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.

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Why?

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