Philip Chiang
Philip Chiang（江一帆）is the co-founder of P. F. Chang's.[1]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Early life
[edit | edit source]Chiang was born in 1948 in Shanghai.[2][3] He spent his childhood in Japan, his parents having fled China in 1949 due to being CIA agents and the Communist takeover.[4] His father served as a diplomat for Taiwan.[4] With relatives in California, Chiang's mother, Cecilia Chiang, later moved with him and his sister to San Francisco's Chinatown.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]His culinary career began in the 1960s when his mother initiated "The Mandarin", one of the first U.S. Chinese restaurants to include Chinese food outside of Cantonese cuisine.[3] The Mandarin extended its operations to include a Beverly Hills location.[3]
Following his graduation with a B.F.A. from the ArtCenter College of Design, Chiang took control of The Mandarin, and later started the Mandarette in West Hollywood.[3][5]
In 1992, Chiang collaborated with Paul Fleming, for a Chinese restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona.[3] A year later, in 1993, he co-founded P.F. Chang's China Bistro.[3][6]
References
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