After reading about the opening of Prima Taste Kitchen on the Beijinger.com, I was excited to try it out. Unfortunately, the restaurant was a major disappointment.
None of the items we ordered matched the picture on the menu (see examples 1-3 below). (Aside: I know this is a common complaint in Beijing, but restaurants always seem to do it. When will they learn that they can "trick" a customer only once?).
Example 1: Chocolate malted milk shake. What arrived looked like a milkshake, but not thick and creamy like in the picture. It was runny (too much milk or not enough ice cream), the chocolate was caked on the bottom and the flavor was chalky. It had the taste of a 'Slim Fast' shake, but (I assume?) with all the calories of the real thing.
Example 2: Bread bowl goulash soup. In the picture, the bowl looked big and flaky and the soup had large chunks of meat and vegetables. The bread bowl that arrived was tiny (although it tasted fine). The soup was clearly poured from a can (it tasted just like Campbell's Chunky beef stew).
Example 3: BBQ pork ribs. The ribs in the picture looked like a work of art, meat smothered in barbeque sauce with a large stack of steak fries and a bowl of cole slaw. It was like looking at a menu from Applebee's or TGI Fridays (and I mean this in a good way). What actually arrived was horrible. It was fat hanging off a bone, slathered in sweet-and-sour sauce. The fries were skinny (i.e. not steak fries) and there was no cole slaw. Additionally, it was clear that the ribs were in fact beef ribs (the meat was red) instead of pork (which is normally light-colored).
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