One of the UK's most respected food critics was bowled over by a Swansea Chinese restaurant. Jay Rayner said he entered a "candy-coloured, garlanded, ribboned, sequined and tasselled world" of as he describes it "all round bloody good things".
Writing in the Observer on Sunday, July 31, Jay visited Gigi Gao’s Favourite Authentic Chinese in Swansea's Maritime Quarter and he didn't hold back on his praise despite commenting on the "vaguely arbitrary" pricing, with everything ending in 98p and the décor being "a little startling".
The writer, who earlier this year revisited Cardiff after previously slating its poor food, said he and the group he was with - including TV chef Jeremy Pang who regularly appears on Sunday Brunch and has his own Asian Kitchen show on ITV - "rampaged through the menu like toddlers let loose on a no-limits sweetie pick’n’mix" ordering dishes that turned out to be so delicious they reordered them.
