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Last night, I was invited to a preview of a new restaurant owned by a friend of a friend. Basically, it is a simple 快餐 (kuài cān) or Chinese fast food restaurant. Simple stir fries for the working man or woman. However, this one has a gimmick. No chef! No cooks! Everything is cooked by this.

 

 

It's a programmable robotic cooking machine with hundreds of recipes already installed, but which can be tweaked to the user's satisfaction. A couple of people were preparing ingredients which were then loaded into a tray at the top, the door closed and shortly later it 's ready to serve.

 

 

We ate:

 

Chicken with green and red bell peppers peppers and wood ear fungus.

 

Mixed vegetables

 

Soup

 

Different chicken with bell peppers

 

Stir fried cucumber

 

Pork and Tofu

 

Fried rice noodles

 

Passion Fruit Wine

 

The verdict. No thanks! The food was bland, underseasoned and boring, but then most fast food is. Bell peppers!! On the plus side, it wasn't greasy like so much of this food can be.

We sent for a bowl of the local specialty from next door - 

 

Duck and snails in a spicy soup. Great stuff!

 

Still, it was a fun and interesting experience, but not one to be repeated. I like my food to be cooked by someone with taste buds.