Lisa Chang - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:16:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Lisa Chang - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Famed Chinese Chef Peter Chang Opens His First DC Restaurant https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/10/04/famed-chinese-chef-peter-chang-opens-his-first-dc-restaurant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=famed-chinese-chef-peter-chang-opens-his-first-dc-restaurant Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:06:14 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1599447 Chang Chang, famed Chinese chef Peter Chang’s first-ever DC restaurant, will launch on Saturday, October 8. The two-in-one-concept near Dupont Circle is split between an upscale, modern-Chinese dining room and a Szechuan takeout/delivery operation—each with distinct menus. To-go opens first, while the dine-in space is set to debut on Thursday, October 20 with dinner service, […]

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Famed Chinese Chef Peter Chang Will Open His First-Ever DC Restaurant https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/06/08/famed-chinese-chef-peter-chang-will-open-his-first-ever-dc-restaurant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=famed-chinese-chef-peter-chang-will-open-his-first-ever-dc-restaurant Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:45:26 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1583900 DC diners have a long history of chasing lauded Hubei-born chef Peter Chang to locations both near and far. First they followed his fiery trail in the early 2000s, as the former Chinese Embassy chef kitchen-hopped around Northern Virginia and beyond. And then devoted “Changians” helped build his and wife/co-chef Lisa Chang’s empire—now at a […]

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Meet DC’s Game-Changing Restaurant Matriarchs https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/10/meet-dcs-game-changing-restaurant-matriarchs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-dcs-game-changing-restaurant-matriarchs Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:58:39 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1569367 Yesoon “Mama” Lee, 75 Chef/co-owner of Mandu in Mount Vernon Triangle and cofounder of Anju in Dupont Circle What was your first restaurant job?  I was always cooking at home for friends or for church events, but in the early 1980s, my best friend and I partnered together to run Picca-Deli in Old Town Alexandria. […]

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The Women Behind Revered Chinese Chef Peter Chang Get the Spotlight at Mama Chang https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/02/27/the-women-behind-chef-peter-chang-get-the-limelight-at-mama-chang/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-women-behind-chef-peter-chang-get-the-limelight-at-mama-chang Wed, 27 Feb 2019 20:14:07 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=632472 Scallion bubble pancakes are among acclaimed Chinese chef Peter Chang‘s most famous dishes. Except the recipe isn’t his. It actually comes from his wife and pastry chef, Lisa Chang. “For the longest time, my mom was the secret weapon behind the Peter Chang empire,” says daughter Lydia Chang, who runs the restaurant group’s business operations. […]

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