Grandma's Home Brings Hangzhou Flavors to NYC
The family-run Grandma's Home restaurant brought its classic Hangzhou, China cooking to a new place in Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood. With more than 200 spots in China, this is Grandma's Home's first American location. The 120-seat restaurant aims to recreate the comforting feeling of dining in grandma's house. The design mixes modern Chinese art with old decor items from early Grandma's Home restaurants in China.
An Unexpected Rapper Shoutout Brings Hype to a Chinese Restaurant in Toronto
A modest Chinese restaurant in Toronto is getting major buzz thanks to an unlikely namedrop from rapper Kendrick Lamar. New Ho King, a late-night eatery, was mentioned in Lamar's recent diss track "Euphoria" aimed at fellow rapper Drake. The lyric that sparked it all? Lamar rapped "I be at New Ho King eatin' fried rice with a dip sauce and a blammy, crodie." Some major news sources noticed the burst of new reviews mentioning the song soon after - so did we at Restaurantji.
