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Wo Hop
Wo Hop opened in 1938 in a basement space on Mott Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, and the restaurant has operated continuously in that same below-street-level location for well over eight decades, becoming one of the most historically significant Cantonese-American restaurants in the entire city. The restaurant became particularly known as a late-night destination, historically staying open into the early morning hours to serve a mix of Chinatown workers finishing overnight shifts and diners looking for a meal after a night out elsewhere in the city, a role that shaped much of its identity independent of its daytime business. Wo Hop has deliberately kept its menu and cash-only operation largely unchanged for decades, resisting the kind of renovation or menu modernization many comparably old restaurants eventually pursue, a consistency that's made it a specific point of pride for generations of regulars. Wo Hop's combination of over eight decades of continuous operation in the same basement Mott Street space and its deliberately unchanged late-night Cantonese-American menu has made it one of the most historically preserved Chinese restaurants anywhere in the country.
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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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