The Return of The Chicagoist Reader Meet-Up
Cubs Combat Casino
Notre Dame Fan Takes It Too Far, Allegedly Punches Clausen
County Sales Tax Rollback Vetoed - Here We Go Again
PHOTOS: Peaches And Amanda Blank At Metro
It's Wednesday, which means around this time we wait with bated breath for Chicago Magazine's Dish e-newsletter to find our inbox. And, in what's shaping up to be a week of notable restaurant closures, we can add Chinatown's Mulan to the list. It comes to us as a shock, but not a surprise. Kee Chan (Heat Sushi) hasn't been involved in the day-to-day operations here for months.
Mulan was known for its Asian-influenced take on surf and turf — we were huge fans of their teriyaki beef maki roll — and its availability for late-night dining, options which are few and far-between on the south side.
Image via Mulan website.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Wrong location, wrong demographic, wrong time.
Nobody thinks of eating upstairs at Chinatown Square. Being shoved at the end behind a Bank and next to a crumbling "antiques" store didn't help either. I only knew of Mulan thanks to the really loud, extremely-out-of-place trance music they blasted to get people to notice the paper signs telling them to look up, and even then it was still unclear how you were supposed to enter the restaurant.
If it had opened in Bucktown, it would be packed every night.