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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Menlo Park: Farewell Su Hong, hello Yum Cha Palace
Uploaded: Dec 8, 2015
Ever since Su Hong To Go in downtown Menlo Park
changed hands in September, new owner Jason Kwan and his staff have been furiously reassuring panicking customers: "Everything is the same; nothing has been changed!" (beyond the name of the restaurant, which is now Chef Kwan’s).
But Kwan’s other forthcoming Menlo Park restaurant, Yum Cha Palace, will be somewhat of a departure from the Su Hong sit-down location that he’s taken over, just steps away from the to-go outpost.
Jason Kwan, the owner of Jason's Cafe in Menlo Park, took over both the to-go and sit-down locations of longtime and much-loved Chinese restaurant Su Hong. He is pictured above in the to-go outpost on Menlo Avenue. Photo by Michelle Le/Almanac News.
Yum Cha Palace will serve traditional Chinese dim sum, Kwan said in an interview Monday. There will also be lots of fresh seafood, he said, such as live lobster and crab.
Kwan said he is currently waiting on city approval for remodeling plans for the space at 1039 El Camino Real, which has sat empty since it suddenly closed for remodeling in 2012. No opening date has been set yet, but he said he’s hoping for sometime in the next three to four months.
The original sit-down Su Hong restaurant opened its doors in 1977. Five years later, another location opened in Palo Alto, which is still in operation though under independent ownership.
Su Hong To Go opened at 630 Menlo Ave. in 1991 "to serve the ever-increasing number of repeat customers with to-go orders," the restaurant's website reads. Its last day of business before transitioning to Chef Kwan’s was Sept. 30.
Kwan is also the owner of Jason's Cafe in Menlo Park, which
opened at 1246 El Camino Real in 2008.
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