Made headlines in 2022 when a customer's Zhang Xiaoquan kitchen knife snapped while she chopped garlic; the company's PR rep then claimed 'Chinese knives shouldn't be used to chop garlic, you should use the back of the blade or a press' — wildly contradicting how Chinese cooks have used
菜刀 for centuries. The line 'patting garlic broke a
张小泉' became a meme.
