Why Shanghai's First American Chinese Restaurant is Taking Off
by Siti Zawani
@ 27 Nov 2015
It’s well known that Chinese cuisine in America is a world’s apart from the real thing. But it seems this adaptation of the Asian fare has warmed up to diners in Shanghai.
The Fortune Cookie is the brainchild of two friends, Fung Lam and Dave Rossi. Fung was born on the doorstep of New York's Chinatown. "I was in the playpen of the kitchen of my parents' restaurant, of my grandparents' restaurants," he recalls. "All my earliest memories were of the woks going, my dad coming home with the smell of Chinese food."
When visiting Shanghai as tourists, Fung and Dave missed their usual versions of noodles and stir-fried classics, and thought others might too. They decided to open what they believe is Shanghai's first American Chinese restaurant, featuring specialties served in Fung's family restaurants for 40 years: orange chicken, kung pao chicken and sesame shrimp. Dave describes the menu as "really American". Find out all the details here:
http://goo.gl/mcnQEg
