A visit to Preston's newest restaurant

We visit Preston's newest restaurant 'Publi Oriental BBQ' and speak to its manager about what the public can expect.

Transcript

00:00 Publi Oriental Barbecue on Frygate is the newest restaurant to open in Preston.

00:05 As you might be able to guess from the decoration, the restaurant serves a combination of Korean and Chinese dishes.

00:12 On arrival I was immediately impressed by the size of the restaurant and its pretty decorations.

00:17 Publi's menu includes starters, mains and sides, made by the restaurant's kitchen as you would usually expect,

00:24 but there was also a self-grill menu, offering customers the chance to get cooking themselves.

00:29 As well as eating in the Frygate site, you can order most of the food to take out too.

00:34 Having opened less than two months ago, I've headed down to the restaurant to chat to manager Stephen Chan

00:39 to find out more about Publi Oriental Barbecue.

00:42 How would you describe Publi?

00:44 I would say they are at the moment the main priority, the selling point is the Korean barbecue

00:51 and also we're doing some Chinese food as well.

00:55 So do you cook the barbecue in front of your customers?

00:59 They've got two either way, right? One, you can order the self-grill, you cook it for yourself

01:05 and the other one you can ask, order the barbecue food, we can cook it in the kitchen for you.

01:10 There's two ways of doing it.

01:12 And why did you want to open the restaurant in Preston?

01:14 Because we want to get the customer more choice and a different concern for them to pick, you know, yeah.

01:22 Instead of just the traditional Chinese buffet, instead of something.

01:26 So we want to make something different for the customers.

01:29 And have you had a good reception of the people in Preston?

01:32 At the moment, we've opened about two months now, quite a good feedback for the customer

01:39 and then the customers seem to be enjoying the star work, serving with them

01:43 and the rest of the presentation and the food as well.

01:47 Have you got a most popular dish?

01:49 In this case, I would say one of the dishes on the menu, number 71, they call the stone bowl rice.

01:58 A lot of people order this one and the next time when they come back, they will order it again.

02:03 And then on the self-grill, self-barbecue, the number 111, the set meal for a lot of people order it.

02:10 And then some of the specific individual dishes, for example, the number 45, the belly pork

02:18 and then some of the seafood, also very popular.

02:21 Do you have a favourite dish?

02:23 For me, I would like the seafood tartar, self-grill.

02:27 And what about the actual restaurant decoration, like the lanterns?

02:31 Some of the lanterns we bought, some of the, bought it from China.

02:35 And then some of the, some of the table and the chair, we bought it from China, imported here.

02:43 The decor, surface and the food is quite, for me, is quite amazing.

02:49 People enjoy it.

02:50 We got a lot of free bar.

02:52 Hopefully the customer in the Preston area or the Lancaster area will come and maybe try to come to the public or rental restaurant to try it.

03:02 And then if not the self-grill barbecue, you can order the different dishes or they bring it to the table to you.

03:08 It's a more different experience instead of just going to the restaurant and ordering.

03:14 You got self-grill, ask them to cook some special dishes to you, some of the special dishes from the restaurant.