{"id":282126,"date":"2025-10-06T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282126\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:05:12","slug":"firstborn-straddles-old-and-new-in-a-rapidly-changing-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282126\/","title":{"rendered":"Firstborn Straddles Old and New in a Rapidly Changing Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The former Pok Pok space in Chinatown\u2019s Mandarin Plaza is now home to <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/115879\/firstborn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Firstborn<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2025\/3\/27\/24395255\/firstborn-chinatown-restaurant-opening-los-angeles-anthony-wang-chinese-american\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">modern Chinese American restaurant<\/a> from chef Anthony Wang. Wang draws on his parents\u2019 history in Beijing, summer trips across China, and his childhood in Georgia and Miami to serve chile-flecked fried chicken and barbecue cabbage that takes cues from twice-cooked pork. Pair dinner with cocktails from <a href=\"https:\/\/punchdrink.com\/articles\/best-new-bartenders-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bar director Kenzo Han<\/a>, who puts their own twist on classic drinks like a Negroni with baiju and pu\u2019erh tea. Firstborn represents a changing Chinatown, led by a younger generation of restaurateurs who keep the neighborhood\u2019s history alive while bringing it into the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">A group dinner with friends at a photogenic Chinatown restaurant, or a solo meal of fried chicken and a martini at the bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">A smaller bar-only menu features dishes like a miniature version of the barbecue cabbage, a duck fat scallion pancake, and \u201cjust a little\u201d fried chicken with two pieces for $12. (The full menu is also available.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Pok Pok space in Chinatown\u2019s Mandarin Plaza is now home to Firstborn, a modern Chinese American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,141333,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-282126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-dining-report","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115328314564681066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}