Shanghai Chinese Cuisine in central Fresno closing down

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An iconic cardinal Fresno Chinese edifice is shutting its doors aft 44 years successful business.

Shanghai Chinese Cuisine connected Blackstone and Griffith volition adjacent connected Tuesday.

"I ne'er wanted to adjacent the restaurant. I wanted to support Shanghai, but nether each the circumstances, financially I cannot spend immoderate longer to enactment astatine this location," said proprietor Pauline Dunn.

Over the past mates of years, the edifice has been targeted by vandals and thieves.

In 2022, copper parts were stolen from the aerial conditioning unit.

Windows person been breached by vandals respective times.

Dunn and her husband, Jacky Chan, worked successful Shanghai for years earlier she became 1 of the owners successful 2000. She and 2 different partners took implicit for Tommy Fong, who archetypal opened Shanghai successful 1980.

"I look guardant to seeing Shanghai proceed successful a caller determination successful the future. I volition beryllium determination to assistance enactment that," said Fong's grandson, David Wong.

Dunn says Wong is similar household to her, and truthful are her customers.

"This is our favourite spot to come, and present we're not going to beryllium capable to travel and accidental hullo to Pauline oregon the waitresses and waiters, they're truly bully here," said lawsuit Gilbert Avila.

Tuesday volition beryllium the past accidental for customers to bask immoderate of their signature nutrient items, similar the celebrated Chinese Chicken Salad.

Dunn says arsenic soon arsenic she finds a caller location, she volition reopen nether the Shanghai sanction radical person travel to cognize and love.

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