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What Happened to M.Y. China After Food Paradise? (San Francisco, CA)

Food Paradise, Season 11 San Francisco, California Closed November 2020

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, M.Y. China has closed — confirmed via sfgate.com, November 2020.

What the source shows: SFGate and Hoodline reported the restaurant's permanent closure in November 2020; a Yelp listing for the Market Street address, updated 2026-07, still shows it closed, with no 2026-dated source confirming the announced Chinatown revival has opened. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

Food Paradise's 'Noodle Nirvana' featured M.Y. China for hand-pulled noodles at the restaurant's open noodle bar inside San Francisco's Westfield Centre, a format described in Sunset and KQED profiles of the restaurant. Chef Martin Yan and Koi Palace partners Ronny and Willy Ng ran the fourth-floor restaurant for eight years, according to SFGate. SFGate and Hoodline both reported that the restaurant permanently closed in November 2020, citing the difficulty of running a takeout-only business on the mall's fourth level during the pandemic. SFist reported in August 2023 that Yan was planning to revive the concept in Chinatown, possibly at the Cathy House building on California Street, but no source found confirms that reopening has happened. A Yelp listing for the original Market Street address, updated 2026-07, still marks the restaurant permanently closed.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 11

Episode 7
Air date not confirmed
Title: Noodle Nirvana · What was featured: hand-pulled noodles at M.Y. China's open noodle bar
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 6 references

  1. sfgate.com https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/M-Y-China-co-owned-by-celebrity-chef-Martin-15748822.php
  2. hoodline.com https://hoodline.com/2020/11/martin-yan-s-westfield-centre-restaurant-m-y-china-closes-permanently/
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/m-y-china-san-francisco-2
  4. sfist.com https://sfist.com/2023/08/18/og-celebrity-chef-martin-yan-to-revive-m-y-china-in-chinatown/
  5. sunset.com https://www.sunset.com/travel/insider-guides/my-china-restaurant-sanfrancisco
  6. kqed.org https://www.kqed.org/checkplease/10957/m-y-china-restaurant-info
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