Restaurant Zao Wang on Leninsky Prospekt. Zao Wang Restaurant
An October visit to the next Asian restaurant turned out to be
A very interesting experience for me.
In order to identify quality based on objective personal opinion, I am writing this review.
The review will be about a Chinese restaurant – Zao Wang. The name itself represents
a unique network of establishments throughout St. Petersburg. However, the emphasis will be on the restaurant at:
St. Petersburg, st. Perekopskaya 5 (Nearest metro station – Narvskaya)
So, not far from the metro under a rather interesting sign and a stylized arch
The doors to a Chinese restaurant are open for us. I would like to immediately note the steep climb
Up the steps, also known as the descent at the end of the visit. There is a chance to stumble and fly down like a bird.
At the time of my visit it was already late in the evening, the main hall was full
Visually it was about 30%. Do people like it? Perhaps this is a good indicator?!
In reality, things are often ambiguous.
I was attracted to this address by its interior from a photo on the Internet, however, as it turned out
- the photographs turned out to be simply old, but in fact there was a visual discrepancy.
In general, it is not critical, since the main subtleties of the design were left and refined.
Many elements of oriental decorations and decorations fit perfectly into the visualization of the premises.
The restaurant itself consists of three separate rooms: a large central one and a small one for privacy.
VIP area for exceptional guests. There is also a kind of closed tent with two tables.
The central hall is comfortable in layout, there is enough space, it feels cozy.
The design is stylish, it feels oriented towards the European standard.
Warm wood tones, soft harmonious furniture. Lighting elements are varied,
Some are set as scenery, some set a fairly light tone.
However, if there is natural light near the window, then in the center of the hall it feels like
It was too dark. Based on this, there was no emphasis on the table at all,
therefore also on the served dishes. It was difficult to fully see what I was eating at this
poor lighting, let alone taking photographs.
In the hall, the circumstances in terms of lighting were somewhat better.
The atmosphere in the interior is somewhat different, but I would call it less comfortable,
Darker and tighter.
The VIP room will feel better about this. For a large company here
A special banquet table with convenience and a functional drum is placed.
All rooms are clean, fresh, ergonomic, and thought out in detail.
Air conditioners and TVs are installed, pleasant music is broadcast
Chinese modern and European. The situation is generally positive
And supportive of the desire to sit at a table and order food.
By the way, I rightly describe the toilet room here as one of the most
Best wishes. Spacious, clean, fresh, thoughtful. Everything is available, everything works
No complaints. Three toilet stalls, even a urinal. Two washbasins, hand dryer,
Large mirror in the hallway.
According to observation, the service in the restaurant is not cold, but not particularly professional either.
The waiters are friendly, they lead and take part in supporting the service
Administrator of the establishment. At the time of my visit, the manager kindly supported
My initiative and told some facts about the restaurant. There were many questions
Discussed, some wishes and comments I think were taken into account for the benefit.
By definition, I would classify the restaurant menu as middle class. Not much and not little.
There is a wine card, a drink card and special offers.
The tea list is located at the end of the main menu, which, in my opinion, is not a very tactful decision.
There is a choice, everything for people in Russian and Chinese.
There are pictures, there is a description, it looks delicious.
A special menu with signature cuisine is available upon reservation.
Many dishes are not included in the main list of dishes on the regular menu.
It didn't take me long to get acquainted with the main menu.
Based on the description, I would not classify the selection as something exotic.
On the contrary, everything is quite simple. Recipes for dishes regardless of the choice of meat
Same type, the cuisine positions itself as Sichuan (sweet).
There was practically no intrigue for me personally; I chose, one might say, by the beautiful
names of proposed culinary masterpieces.
The tea menu contains many typos in the text, which distorts the information as a whole.
I am inclined to guess that the same situation applies to the rest of the Russian-language descriptions of dishes.
What did you order?
When ordering, the nuance was taken into account in terms of serving dishes as they were ready on both sides.
1) LOTUS Tea (Aromatic green tea, described as healthy)
Previously, I drank a tea called lotus in tea bags from Grindfield, the aroma of which I found
It was reminiscent of a brew made from fresh blackcurrant leaves in the village.
I expected something more from a real lotus, but besides a beautiful opening
There were no more petals in the boiling water. No taste, no aroma.
2) Seafood soup (small bowl with the usual clear seaweed broth, seaweed, a couple of mussels.
No taste, no originality, no filling portion) Are you serious?! For 270 R?
3) Shrimp chips (Huge rice chips, can’t fit in your mouth, stupid big portion.
Tastes like cheap Russian potato chips, only colored. How does the appetizer go?
With difficulty, as a separate dish there is no need at all. Served on a platter heaped with a mountain. Why such a quantity was determined is not clear. According to observation, everyone who orders them either leaves 80% on the table or takes it with them. Actually, I had no desire to eat or take it with me.)
4) Tree mushroom salad (Less crispy mushrooms, apparently in oil, with pieces of garlic, carrots and parsley thrown in for appearance) The taste is very weak, there is no combination.
5) Beef with cumin (Hunan Province)
In the recipe it appears as beef tenderloin, cumin, hot pepper, onion, soy sauce.
What's the reality? Too much fragrant spices interrupts the spiciness, the onion does not create a harmonious combination of taste and the presence of the sauce is not noticeable. Visually not appetizing, poor. The presentation is unprepossessing, the portion contains only meat, which means that you need to order rice or a vegetable side dish separately for the dish.
The cooked beef tasted terrible, not tasty, and simply not good at all.
No emotions. When I personally prepared the marinade for kebabs during
days from the same beef, with the same caraway seeds, considering that I made the meat by eye and for the first time,
and it turned out much tastier after cooking it over the fire.
Oh yes, of course I ordered a cup of rice to go with the beef.
(only the rice was actually tasty and cooked perfectly)
I'm shocked. There is no smell of Chinese cuisine here,
Although, by definition, they cook like the Chinese.
I give 2 points for a cup of rice, Carl!
With a 20% discount, the check cost me 804 RUR.
I left a tip to the waitress out of courtesy and for her beautiful eyes.
Founder and owner of the restaurant chain " Zao Wang» Chinese citizen Shen Wei, once worked in Beijing as an ordinary chef in a Chinese restaurant. It took him a lot of time to master all the intricacies of preparing complex dishes and various sauces that you can now try in our restaurants.
From his work experience, Shen Wei knows well that the taste of dishes directly depends on the quality of the products, which is why every day he personally makes food purchases, selecting only the highest quality products. Shen Wei opened the first Chinese restaurant “Zao Wang” in 2003 in St. Petersburg near Narvskaya metro station on Perekopskaya street. This is a very beautiful cozy restaurant, with convenient parking, decorated in national Chinese style with quiet Chinese background music. Here they will be happy to offer guests dishes of authentic East Asian cuisine. The restaurant consists of four halls, two of which are banquet halls, one non-smoking and one large common hall with cozy booths in which you can retire. At the entrance there is a small fountain with cute turtles that children like so much. The small banquet hall can accommodate up to 15 people; the large banquet hall can accommodate up to 40 people. Both rooms are equipped with a separate entrance, restroom, music equipment, TVs, karaoke.
Shen Wei opened his second Chinese restaurant “Zao Wang” in 2009 on Konnaya Street near Sq. Uprisings. By this time, Sheng and his wife Yuan Xiaojuan had already given birth to their first son, Shen Qiu. Throughout his entire family life, Yuan always supports his husband in everything, and this is probably why all his restaurants have a warm, homely atmosphere. The interior of the restaurant on Konnaya Street resembles a beautiful golden box. The walls inside the restaurant seem to be embroidered with gold threads. Three small halls smoothly flow from one to another. Here you can treat yourself to traditional Chinese dishes, as well as take home dishes in a box of rice and homemade noodles, cooked over a strong, open fire “wok” according to ancient Chinese recipes.
The opening of the third restaurant in 2011 coincides with the birth of Shen Sheng's second son, who was born in St. Petersburg. The third Chinese restaurant “Zao Wang” is located on Metallistov Avenue in the building of the Polustrovo Hotel. This is a fairly modern restaurant, designed in a pub style, consisting of four spacious rooms with high ceilings and large display windows. There is a lot of light and space, it is possible to invite guests to large banquets, all football matches are broadcast live, not only business lunches are offered, but also set dinners, the restaurant has a large convenient parking lot.
Our restaurants employ only chefs from China who have undergone special training and are qualified. Here you can find a huge selection of cold and hot dishes for every taste. Friendly and sociable staff will help you make the right choice among the numerous Chinese and Japanese dishes, a variety of wines, drinks and desserts. Each of our restaurants is open from 12:00 o'clock and runs until 24:00 o'clock; on weekdays from 12:00 to 16:00, set meals (business lunches) are offered. Excellent cuisine, pleasant atmosphere, quality service and low prices will pleasantly surprise you. Come! We are waiting for you!
Chinese restaurant "Zao Wang" on Metallistov
Metallistov Ave., 115, lit. A
Chinese restaurant "Zao Wang" on Konnaya
Konnaya st., 5/3, lit. A (entrance from Telezhny Lane)
Chinese restaurant "Zao Wang" on Narvskaya
st. Perekopskaya, 5, lit. A
ZAO-WANG ZAO-WANG
(“prince of the hearth”), Tsao-shen (“god of the hearth”), Tsao-jun (“lord of the hearth”), Tsao-pusa (“bodhisattva of the hearth”), Dongchu si-ming chuzhu (“lord of the eastern destinies ( corner) of the kitchen"), a popular deity of the hearth in Chinese mythology. The very concept of “hearth” (in modern pronunciation tsao) is written with a hieroglyph representing a cave with a frog sitting in it. Although the semantics of ancient ideas about the hearth remains unsolved, it can be assumed that initially the Chinese believed in the spirit of the hearth in the form of a frog, then in the form of a woman (during the period of dominance of the maternal clan), and in a later era - in a male form. Probably the cult of the C.-v. developed on the basis of the most ancient ideas that disappeared in the 1st millennium AD. e. According to later legends^ C.-v. monitors everything that happens in the house and at the end of the year - on the 23rd or 24th of the 12th month according to the lunar calendar, goes to Yu-di(“to the jade sovereign”), to whom he reports on all the affairs that happened in his house. It was believed that C.-v. returns back on the 1st of the New Year.
Judging by the anonymous work of the 7th-9th centuries. “Nyanxia suishi ji” (“Notes on the seasons in the capital”), a custom of appeasing the C.-v. already existed at that time. Then they sprinkled wine on the hearth, which was called “intoxicating the lord of life.” This is a reference to the Lord of Life (Si-min) indicates a very early contamination of the archaic image of Sy-ming and Ts.-v., which over time led to the complete merging of both figures and the transfer of the functions of the god of fate Sy-ming to Ts.-v., who in the late Middle Ages became the actual guardian of family well-being . Over time, C.-v. They also began to be revered as the patron god of cooks and waiters. Often C.-v. is also called Nan-fang ho-dijun (“southern sovereign of fire”), it is possible that this nickname preserves the idea of the god of the hearth as the god of fire.
In different eras there were different versions of the origin of the C.-v. In late medieval folklore in the C.-C. turned into a certain poor lazy man Zhang, who fed at the expense of his wife. On New Year's Eve, his wife sent him to her parents for rice, and they, feeling sorry for their needy daughter, put silver at the bottom of the bag. The lazy man got tired of carrying a heavy burden, and he gave the bag to a beggar he met. The enraged wife beat him to death, but since it was New Year's Eve, she temporarily buried the corpse under the hearth. Regretting what she had done, she then hung a memorial plaque with her husband’s name over the fireplace and began to pray in front of it. Since then, the custom of honoring Zhang as a C.-v. spread, According to legend, throughout China. There are other versions of this story. In religious texts reflecting the beliefs of various sects, the origin of the C.-v. is explained in this way: in response to the complaints of the spirits that it is difficult for them to keep track of the affairs of people. Supreme Jade Sovereign - Yu-di invited Saint Zhang Zhan from the mountain Kunlun and ordered him to become Ts.-v. Having received this command, Zhang was transformed into 5 lords of the hearth, corresponding to the 4 cardinal directions and the center, who in turn turned into 10 thousand C.-v., who began to watch people in all houses (“Zao-jun baojuan” - “ Precious scroll about the god of the hearth"). In other works of the same genre, C.-v. appears in the form of a kind old man, saving people and instructing them on the path of virtue. Image of Ts.-v. extremely popular in folk art, paper paintings depicting Ts.-v., his wife and assistants were printed from boards in large numbers of copies. There were also paintings with a portrait of one Ts.-v., for some Chinese believed that if you hang a picture of Ts.-v. with his wife, then there will be no harmony in the house.
Lit.: Alekseev V.M.. Chinese folk painting, M., 1966, p. 155-56; Baranov I.G., Chinese New Year, Harbin, 1927;
Maspero H„ Le Taoism et les religions chinoises. , p. 129-31; Situ Yun, Zao-pusa-di gushi (The Legend of the Bodhisattva of the Hearth), “Minsu, 1928, No. 25-26. With. 34-36;
Yu-min, Zao-shen-dy gushi (The Legend of Zao-sheng). Minsu, 1928, 53-55, p. 128-31; Liang Sheng-hui, Tsao-shen-di yanjiu (Research on Tsao-sheng), “Dongfang zazhi”, 1926, vol. 23, no. 24, p. 103-08; Hu Jia. Han-ren sy tsao kao (Research on sacrifices to the hearth in the Han era), “I Ching”, 1937, No. 21, p. 4-7; Zhou Zuo-ren, Guanyu sun Zao (Regarding the farewell of Tsao-shen), Xiangtu, vol. 2, no. 2; Yang Kun, Zao-shen kao (Research about Zao-sheng), “Hanxue”, 1944, No. 1, p. 107-67; Zhu Tse-fan, Gudai si zao xisu (Customs associated with sacrifices to the hearth in ancient times), “Dongfang zazhi.” 1969, vol. 2, no. 10; Zao-wanye-dy chuanshuo ernian (Two legends about the god of the hearth), with Minjian wenxue.” 1957, No. 12, p. 42-49; Tsuda Soki-chi, Sina no minken shinko-ni okeru kagami (God of the hearth in Chinese folk beliefs), in his book: Sina hokyo no kenkyu, Tokyo, 1957, p. 545-81;
Karino Naoshi, Shina-no kagami-ni tsuite (Concerning the god of the hearth in China), in his book: Shinagaku bunsu, [b. m., b. G.]; Ikeda Suekazu, Shina-ni okeru kagami no kigen (The origin of the image of the god of the hearth in China), "Shukyo kenkyu", No. 134; Inahata Koichiro, Shimei-gami zo no tenkai (Development of the image of the god of the lord of life), “Chugoku bungaku ken-vue”, 1979, № 5,
With. 1-17.
B. L. Riftin.
(Source: “Myths of the Peoples of the World.”)
At the bottom of the picture is the jubaopen (“vase that collects treasures”, the Chinese version of the cornucopia), to the left of it is Li-shi Hsien-guan, to the right is Zhao-tsai tung-tzu, the usual companions of the god of wealth Tsai-shen.
Along the edges of the picture on the left and right are images of the Eight Immortals.
Chinese popular print.
Beginning of the 20th century
Leningrad.
Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism.
Collection of Academician V. M. Alekseev.
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Shen Wei opened the first Chinese restaurant “Zao Wang” in 2003 in St. Petersburg near Narvskaya metro station on Perekopskaya street. This is a very beautiful cozy restaurant, with convenient parking, decorated in national Chinese style with quiet Chinese background music.
They will be happy to offer guests dishes of authentic East Asian cuisine.
"Zao Wang" on Narvskaya
The restaurant consists of four halls, two of which are banquet halls, one non-smoking hall and one large common hall with cozy booths in which you can retire. At the entrance there is a small fountain with cute turtles that children like so much.
The small banquet hall can accommodate up to 15 people; the large banquet hall can accommodate up to 40 people. Both rooms are equipped with a separate entrance, restroom, music equipment, TVs, karaoke.
"Zao Wang" on Metallistov
The third Chinese restaurant “Zao Wang” is located on Metallistov Avenue in the building of the Polustrovo Hotel. This is a fairly modern restaurant, designed in a pub style, consisting of four spacious rooms with high ceilings and large display windows. There is a lot of light and space, it is possible to invite guests to large banquets, all football matches are broadcast live, not only business lunches are offered, but also set dinners, the restaurant has a large convenient parking lot.
The fourth restaurant on Leninsky was opened in 2013 at Leninsky Prospekt, 114.
The 11th lunar day, the most favorable day of the summer period, was chosen as the opening day of our 4th restaurant “Zao Wang”.
The location was also not chosen by chance. Convenient interchange and convenient access guarantee our dear guests ease and comfort of travel.
The restaurant's interior is designed in a laconic European style, with decorative elements typical of Asian style. Massive elephant statues made of mahogany, ceramic frames with symbols of prosperity, good luck and love fill the restaurant with a sense of sacred and divine grace. The color scheme of the restaurant evokes thoughts of harmony and peace of mind. The chefs can only highlight all this with aromatic and delicious dishes of East Asia.
On the menu you can find long-loved dishes of Chinese cuisine, get acquainted with exotic dishes of Thai and Korean cuisines, and enjoy signature rolls from our sushi chef. A special menu is provided for the youngest guests. For business and active people there is a business lunch and Wi-Fi. There is also a smoking area and positions for small banquets and family evenings.
The restaurants employ only chefs from China who have undergone special training and are qualified.
Friendly and sociable staff will help you make the right choice among the numerous Chinese and Japanese dishes, a variety of wines, drinks and desserts.
Each of the restaurants is open from 12:00 o'clock and works until 24:00 o'clock; on weekdays from 12:00 to 16:00 set meals (business lunches) are offered. Excellent cuisine, pleasant atmosphere, quality service and low prices will pleasantly surprise you.