“We’re not closed. We’re just getting more improved,” says Catherine Lee, manager of Chia Shiang. In late July, they were technically closed and had been for three weeks, which prompted a reader to ask if it was closed permanently.
When we looked in, the inside work was done: Lee, who with husband, Barry Pang, has owned the Chinese restaurant next to Morgan & York for eleven years, showed off the renovated interior, done over in turquoise and light green: “very fresh,” she says. There is a “privacy room” that seats eighteen people and will have a “more fancy menu.” In the rest of the place, the menu is mostly the same, though they’re taking the opportunity to add a few new dishes to it. Pang and Lee are from Shanghai, and she says “we have pretty good authentic Chinese food here.”
Still on the to-do list: new awnings and a repaved parking lot. Pang and Lee were hoping for a mid-August reopening.
Chia Shiang, 2016 Packard, 741-0778. Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun. noon-10 p.m. Closed Mon.
