I came here once for a weekday lunch with a friend who worked in the area. The restaurant is located in the Swiss stock exchange building, and the place was filled with business-types having their midday meal. This is one of those situations where the food was fine, but I was too irked by the overabundance of Chinese decorations all over the place to properly enjoy my meal.
Why can't Chinese restaurants in Switzerland just look like a regular restaurant? Why do they feel compelled to have a plethora of outdated decorations that scream, THIS IS A CHINESE RESTAURANT??
It could just be my own pet peeve coming from California, but I have an issue with the cheesiness of it all. I don't see Japanese or Thai restaurants going over-the-top with lanterns and ornately carved furniture. Perhaps I'm just a minimalist, a-few-decorations-for-ambiance type of girl. Let the food do the talkin', not all the stuff surrounding it.
But I suppose this is what sells to the Swiss market, so they can justify the high prices by providing an exotic, "authentic" Chinese experience. :P Another pet peeve of mine is when a non-Asian person waits until he is presented with a pair of chopsticks before eating anything that even remotely resembles Asian food. I'm all ready to chow down with fork in hand, but he needs to bother a waitress to request a pair of chopsticks first. :O But that's a rant for another day... read more