Red Cook Private Chinese Kitchen

There is no restaurant experience, even in the restaurants of Chinatown that can duplicate the regal and refined adventure of eating in a Chinese private kitchen.

The private kitchen experience was common in Imperial China when entertaining meant whole families, almost all of great wealth, gathered together for banquets cooked at home. It was the antithesis of what we have come to know as “home cooking”. It was, instead, a lavish spectacle with both the intimacy of family gathered together and the splendor and bounty of a multi-course banquet. The recipes from these banquets have been handed down from family chef to family chef over centuries and until now have been unavailable in Chinese-American restaurants.

Chef Kian has created his own version of this private kitchen and his Red Cook Private Chinese Kitchen is an eating adventure unlike any other. So, what is it like eating in Chef Kian’s private Chinese kitchen?

You are greeted as an honored guest. This is a place of privilege. It is special. There is expectancy in the air. The room is elegant and the music, lighting and table settings are a reminder that you have been transported far away from home. Everything is new, yet special and comfortable.

The waiter greets you and you talk about the menu, what fresh fish the chef will use, what vegetables are in season, what special dishes the chef will be adding to the menu. There is intimacy and refinement here. This is not a restaurant experience. This is a personal adventure that has been prepared for you.

You and your guests talk and mingle while the waiter pours the wine and explains the pairings you will be served. When the first of ten dishes come, steaming and steeped in the smells of Chinese herbs, you have forgotten that the world outside of China exists. You eat, talk, share plates of food and bottles of wine, and get lost in the mystique of a traditional Asian banquet.

This is the experience of eating in Chef Kian’s private kitchen – the Chinese private dining experience, just the way it was done for centuries in China, right at your back door.