Moon Palace

xoco chicago arthur mullen manager ramon wendy santana pastry chef kyle frontera grill maura 3rdarm reefer

Tom Skilling Forecast: Wednesday predicted to be first sub-80 degree day in more than a month. Mid seventies with gusty winds.

xoco chicago arthur mullen manager ramon wendy santana pastry chef kyle frontera grill maura 3rdarm reefer

Chef Glenn was born in Shanghai, China and learned English when he came to the US as a 7-year-old. I would never have guessed he was ESL in a million years, but I guess he used to get made fun of for his accent. It turns out he is a member of THE Wangs of China, a powerful family before the Communist Revolution. This news, in addition to the story of him dropping out of high school to be a professional CounterStrike player, has deepened my fascination with Chef Glenn. When I finally broke off my veganism back in the day, it was with soup dumplings at the Moon Palace, the restaurant in Chicago’s Chinatown I just found out is owned by Glenn’s parents. Glenn himself may have been the one to cook my first bites of meat in almost a year…

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