Peng Kitchen is a subsidiary of Hunan Peng Cannon Catering Management Co., Ltd., the first Peng Kitchen restaurant opened in Changsha in 2010, and has become one of the more popular Hunan restaurants in the local area. Later, with its novel business model and authentic taste, it grew rapidly and grew into one of the most influential Hunan cuisine restaurants in the country, and was rated as a famous trademark and the most popular restaurant in Hunan Province in 2013. Peng Kitchen has a large number of chain branches, with hundreds of direct and franchised stores across the country, and currently has two stores in Hangzhou, among which the Zhaohui store is more prominent in scale and popularity.

Peng's kitchen has a wide variety of dishes, including Hunan cold dishes, steamed dishes, stir-fried dishes and other authentic dishes. In the stir-fry series, a fragrant 18-second raw fried beef, cut into thin slices of tender beef, and stir-fried in 18 seconds with chili pepper and garlic and other seasonings. The instantaneous high temperature locks in the tenderness of the beef, and the meat is tender and smooth, without losing its strength, and the spicy taste penetrates into the meat slices, and the more you chew, the more spicy it becomes. Chilli lovers don't miss another organic camphor port chilli dish. Zhangshugang chili pepper is a treasure in the chili pepper, only planted in the area of Zhangshu Town, Hunan, and is small and full of meat. After simply stir-frying, the original umami of the chili pepper is retained, and the first taste only feels fresh and sweet, and the more you eat, the more you can feel the restrained spicy taste slowly gushing out, and the stamina is full, so diners who are not very spicy still need to do what they can. After a few greasy and heavy dishes, it is very timely to have a refreshing and delicious original flavor of bamboo shoots. There is no use of fancy seasoning, which retains the original fragrance of fresh bamboo shoots, and the taste is crisp and sweet, which is the most suitable for relieving oiliness.

In addition, dishes such as beef shabu with tomatoes, stir-fried okra with dace with tempeh, taro pork ribs, and beef brisket rice have also won the favor of less spicy diners. The restaurant also adds Hangzhou-style cold dishes to the menu, such as cold Arctic ice vegetables, spiced beef, and cucumbers in farmhouse sauce, enriching the restaurant's assortment. The overall dishes of the restaurant are mainly stir-fried, and the products are remarkable. In comparison, the classic Hunan dish of chopped pepper fish head is a little unsatisfactory, the fish head is loose, and it has a slight muddy smell when eaten, so it has to be covered up by the freshness and spiciness, and the slick oil is more and the sauce is scarce, which is more disappointing.

The restaurant claims that the ingredients of the Peng Kitchen branch across the country are purchased, distributed and transported by the Changsha headquarters, and the actual ingredients used will still be adjusted according to local conditions. It is worth mentioning that Chef Peng's novel publicity model is eye-catching. With the founder Peng Dacang as the spokesperson, whether it is the restaurant promotional poster or the menu, it is printed with the image of the founder, which gradually left a deep impression on diners and has become one of the representative symbols of the restaurant brand.

Zhaohui store has a large area, the store adopts a courtyard layout with Huxiang cultural characteristics, divided into different partitions, and the matching of various lighting and flower branches creates a warm and elegant dining atmosphere, and the seats are relatively spacious. The restaurant has seven private dining rooms, two of which are interconnecting and can accommodate up to 30 people, with advance reservations required. The restaurant uses scanning code ordering, but the ordering system is slightly sluggish and sometimes malfunctioning, so you can ask the waiter to help you order manually. The number of waiters in the restaurant is sufficient, and they can basically respond to requests, and the meals are a little busy and cramped when there are many people, so diners need to wait patiently.

In Hangzhou, where the overall level of Hunan restaurants is sluggish, Peng Kitchen ranks second in Hangzhou Hunan restaurants with its strong chain background and opening scale. However, due to the fluctuation of the production level between the franchised stores, the menu mode is fixed, and the overall level is in the middle, there is a feeling of choosing a tall one among the short. But based on the current situation, Chef Peng really wants to find a better choice for Hunan spicy diners in Hangzhou.