China King opens on Jackson

Scio welcomes its first Chinese eatery

by Sally Mitani

posted 7/13/2011

Michael Yang hasn't been in Michigan long enough to know that we use a hand to map our geography, but he smiles in recognition when he sees it. He says that China is shaped like a chicken, and quickly sketches one with a dot low on the breast, which is Fuzhou, his hometown in Fujian province. Yang has been in the U.S. for a while, mostly working, alongside his parents, in Chinese restaurants--other people's--in North Carolina. Now they have their own restaurant, China King, in the strip roughly across from Quality 16 movie theaters on

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