![]() ![]() “Bear,” as Xu likes to be called, hails from Shandong, a coastal Chinese province just south of Beijing. On the southeast corner of Broadway Road and McClintock Drive, tucked into a strip mall two doors down from BP Street Café, Old Town Taste is making some impressively refined Sichuan and Beijing-style food. You’re going to want to pay attention to this one. Ho hum, another day, another new Chinese restaurant in the East Valley, you say. ![]() He’d also heard that much of it was subpar. So together with Janice Yu, whom Xu calls his wife though the couple are not legally married, and his business partner, Zuhao Wang, the trio chose south Tempe as the location for their first restaurant. After a few months of renovation, Old Town Taste opened on April 6. Xiaohan “Bear” Xu had heard of the growing Chinese restaurant scene in Phoenix. So, when it comes time to open his own restaurant, what’s the manager of a Sichuan joint in Irvine, California to do? Meanwhile, Southern California is becoming awfully crowded with the same. It’s been a wild few years, but on the grand scale, Phoenix is still getting acquainted with regional Chinese fare. View Gallery: Sweet, sour, spicy: Old Town Taste's Sichuan- and Beijing-style dishes in Phoenix areaĬorrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article incorrectly described the relationship between Xiaohan “Bear” Xu and Janice Yu.Īs the Chinese community in the East Valley grows, so too does the California-Arizona connection. ![]()
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