Red Moon Chinese Cafe

Specialties

We are a BYOB restaurant. You may bring in your own beer or wine and enjoy it with our wonderful food for a nominal corkage/​setup fee. Beer and Wine Only. Must be 21+, we ID.

Some of our family favorites:

–BBQ Pork Cantonese Chow Mein (made with our homemade slow-​roasted pork — YUM!)

–Shrimp and Lobster Sauce (in our kids’ travels across the country and world, they’ve reported back one thing: NO ONE can make it like their dad can. You MUST try ours)

–Beef Chow Fun

–Hot and Sour Soup — it’s pretty killer stuff

–Popular Chow Mein (Yeah, no kidding. That same staple of celery and ground pork over crispy noodles. Mr. Kwan eats it for breakfast sometimes. It’s simple. It’s a Minnesota favorite. It’s just plain good and we’re proud to say it.)

History

Established in 1996.

You won’t find Tin Tat Kwan sliding around a wet kitchen floor on four-​inch high wooden sandals in the back of Red Moon, but that’s how he describes one of his first restaurant experiences.

Kwan began his restaurant career at the age of 17 in Hong Kong after escaping (ask him to tell you that story!) the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. With the proverbial and literal «nothing but the clothes on his back,» he began his life’s work.

«I chose to work in a restaurant because only the restaurants [in Hong Kong] provided cooks with a place to sleep,» Kwan said.

Hong Kong kitchens were dynamic environments where you not only learned a lot by watching and trying, Kwan said, but also because there were always ten people waiting for your job.

Kwan arrived in Minnesota in 1972 — opening his first restaurant in Minneapolis a decade later after working all over the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

In January 1996, the family sold the Minneapolis restaurant and opened Red Moon.

Meet the Business Owner

Tat K.

Business Owner

Mr. Tin Tat Kwan is the sole proprietor and head chef at Red Moon Chinese Café. You can find him in the kitchen daily or in the dining room charming his customers.

His cooking style is rooted in Cantonese tradition — making great use of the most familiar and tasty adaptations that have made American Chinese cooking as «American as apple pie.»

Our family eats and cherishes every item on our menu. It’s excellent cooking from our family to yours. We hope you enjoy it!