For 18 years, Oriental Express was downtown Tampa’s go-to for quick Chinese food and sushi. That was until the shop, located at 510 E Jackson St. near the county building, shuttered last Halloween.
Wife and husband owners Xue Yun and Chao Lin, from Fujian in southeastern China, quickly found a new home and are back in business a quarter-mile away under the Sunset Lotus moniker.
Xue Yun told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that she and her husband had to find a new place when the lease on the Oriental Express address ended. Their reopening last November at 514 N Franklin St. in between Anchor Bar and Eddie & Sam’s pizza means workers and visitors won’t have to venture out of town to get their fix of classic dishes (General Tso, Happy Family, Mongolian beef, etc., starting at $10.95 with steamed rice)—but that’s not everything on the menu.
Sunset Lotus Asian Fusion
514 N Franklin St., Tampa…