This restaurant certainly cannot be accused of selling too much of its menu.
A Chinese restaurant in Montreal is going viral for its “extremely honest” menu descriptions posted with every dish.
Earlier this week, Twitter user Kim Belair tweeted photos of some of the descriptions from Aunt Dai’s menu written by the restaurant owner.
“Aunt Dai is my favorite Chinese restaurant in Montreal, but the REAL treat is the menu, with extremely honest comments from the owner,” Belair wrote next to the pictures.
The dishes Belair included in her tweet were the Orange Beef, which is apparently “not THAT good” compared to the restaurant’s General Tao Chicken and the Sweet and Spicy pork strips, the owner of which is “not a big fan” because it is different from the version he ate when he went to university in China.
The tweet also showed the descriptions for the beef with satay sauce, that the owner “did NOT have a chance to try it” when writing 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 more than 66,500 times as of its publication on Friday.
Feigang Fei, the restaurant’s owner, told Today that the online attention has drawn more customers to Aunt Dai from Monday and Tuesday. After a radio interview on 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 items on the menu and ordered things they ended up not wanting.
“The whole idea is to let people know what they’re ordering,” he told Today. “A lot of people thought it was very funny [and] very helpful. I was so encouraged by them. I didn’t think I had to write comments for every item, but I was encouraged by them, their comments, and their feedback, so I finished them all. “
In the end, Fei said the restaurant wants to be “very honest, very loyal to ourselves and our customers.”
“We don’t want them to come up with high expectations and then feel disappointed,” said Fei. “We are not always the best restaurant, but we try every day to do our best to satisfy our customers and not sell too much.”