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P.F. Chang's
P.F. Chang's China Bistro opened its first location in 1993 in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded by Paul Fleming and chef Philip Chiang, whose surname (spelled "Chang" in the restaurant's name) came from his mother, Cecilia Chiang, a pioneering figure widely credited with introducing authentic regional Chinese cuisine to American diners decades earlier through her own San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin. The chain positioned itself as a more upscale, sit-down alternative to fast-casual Chinese food, with a menu built around approachable, Americanized versions of Chinese dishes served in a stylized dining room featuring a large horse sculpture, a design element that became one of the chain's most recognized visual signatures. P.F. Chang's lettuce wraps became one of its most specifically popular menu items, a dish the chain has credited with meaningfully shaping broader American restaurant menus, as numerous competing chains across multiple cuisines added their own versions of the dish following its success. P.F. Chang's combination of its direct family lineage to a genuine pioneer of authentic Chinese cuisine in America and its role in popularizing upscale, sit-down Chinese-American dining nationally has made it one of the most commercially significant Chinese restaurant chains in the country.
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House of Nanking
House of Nanking opened in 1988 in San Francisco's Chinatown, founded by Peter Fang, and the small, unassuming restaurant became known for a genuinely idiosyncratic house style — a spicy, garlicky approach to Shanghainese-influenced dishes that diverged noticeably from the more standard Cantonese-American food found at many neighboring Chinatown restaurants. The restaurant built a reputation for a somewhat unusual dining format in which servers frequently recommended or directly chose dishes for tables rather than relying purely on customers ordering off the printed menu, an approach some diners found charmingly direct and others found presumptuous, but one that became part of the restaurant's specific identity. House of Nanking drew celebrity visitors and extensive media coverage over the decades specifically because of that combination of bold, personal cooking style and its cramped, no-frills dining room, a contrast that became part of the restaurant's broader appeal as an authentic-feeling alternative to more polished Chinese restaurants elsewhere in the city. House of Nanking's combination of Peter Fang's distinctive, spicy Shanghainese-influenced cooking and its unusual server-directed ordering format has made it one of the most singularly personality-driven Chinese restaurants anywhere in the country.
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