Food Network
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro isn’t known as a traditional Chinese restaurant, but its most popular dish draws from it: The nationwide chain’s best-selling Chang’s Chicken Lettuce Wraps first appeared on menus at The Mandarin, a legendary San Francisco restaurant that aimed to introduce traditional Chinese cuisine to the U.S., in the 1970s. When The Mandarin owner’s son, Philip Chiang, cofounded P.F. Chang’s in 1993, he knew he wanted to put the popular wraps on his menu with the same do-it-yourself twist: Diners get the chicken and rice noodles separate from the lettuce leaves so they can wrap them up themselves. Fans of the dish, like Sharon Deckard from Louisville, KY, have been writing to us asking for the recipe, but no one at the chain’s Scottsdale, AZ, headquarters would give it up. So, Food Network Kitchens created this copy.
