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Shanghai Garden is a restaurant located in International District of Seattle (formerly known as Chinatown). Chef Hua Te Su began learning the craft of cooking at age twelve under the guidance of his master chefs. He learned everything from the basics of cooking to the best of Shanghai, Taiwanese, Szechuan and Hunan style cuisines with his emphasis on savory, healthy conscious creations. With over fifty plus years of experience, devoted customers of both old and new praise Chef Su's culinary skills.

Chef Su and his wife, Helen, opened a small place in the International District in 1990. They moved to the more spacious location, with its lovely pale pink dining room, on Sixth Avenue Seattle two years later. After realizing that there were no Chinese restaurants with healthy choices on their menu, Chef Su was inspired to show that Chinese food can be nutritiously healthy as well as flavorful. He has always created dishes with the idea in mind that food should be nourishing. Despite the stigma that Chinese food is “unhealthy”, Su has incorporated nutritious choices in his menu like brown rice, barley grass noodles as well as selected ingredients that would give health benefits.

In 1996, they opened their second location in Issaquah Washington. After serving the Eastside community for 21 great years, it was an extremely difficult decision to close the long time establishment in 2016 to revamp the business into their son Dan's concept and idea. The location reopened as Krawbar (80 Front Street North, Suite 1 - Issaquah, Washington 98027) in 2018, it is an Asian inspired seafood boil restaurant and raw oyster bar. Check it out!

In 2005, their four children, Kathy, Christine, Betty and Dan took over the ownership of their family business after the loss of their mother to cancer on Mother's Day weekend.

Over the years customers have watched their children grow up in the restaurant industry since the opening of the first location. Now grown up with their own families and children, the Su siblings will continue their parents’ legacy and pass on the legacy to their own children.