After more than eight decades in business, New Garden Restaurant will soon close. The venerable South Phoenix Chinese restaurant is the city’s oldest in operation. It was known for cooking the fusion stir-fry, chop suey.
“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the permanent closure of New Garden,” a sign on the restaurant’s door reads. A staff member confirmed New Garden will close in the next two weeks, but was unsure of an exact last day of service.
Kam Yee Tse, who went by Mary, founded New Garden Restaurant in 1942, according to The Arizona Republic. The restaurant resides in a brick building painted a rusty terracotta on South Central Avenue and Hadley Street, just south of downtown Phoenix in the Valley’s historic Chinatown…