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Slot Review: Chinese Kitchen

Nothing screams “entertainment!” like some good, old-fashioned racism. We wouldn’t exactly consider ourselves the political correctness police here at SlotsData, but there is always that unspoken “line.” Playtech may have crossed it with their Chinese Kitchen online slot machine title. Featuring a main graphic of a cross-eyed, buck-toothed and leering caricature of an Asian cook peering over a variety of cooking pots, this slot game couldn’t get uglier if it tried. Playtech is pretty low on the casino software totem pole, so it’s possible that they decided that resorting to egregious stereotypes might boost their profile. Regardless of the reason, we were too fired up about the theme to pay a lot of attention to the actual action. That’s probably not a bad thing, because the little that we did notice was not terribly impressive.

Chinese Kitchen is a three-reel, eight-payline online slot title. It pays vertically and diagonally, in addition to the normal horizontal configuration of winning combinations. You can bid from between one cent and five dollars on this game, with top coin size of three coins. Sporting a maximum payout of one thousand coins, you certainly won’t get rich off Chinese Kitchen.

There are no wild symbols or scatters in this online slot machine, just icons of depressed-looking cartoon sea creatures (a snail, a turtle, a fish, etc.) ready to go under the chopping block. Their dejection is appropriate – it’s exactly how we felt after this pathetic excuse for a punter.

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