Beautiful South by Kwei Fei

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"Owners David Schuttenberg and Tina Heath-Schuttenberg — the team behind James Island’s Kwei Fei — opened a modern industrial downtown venue that is design-forward and also sells merch, including tote bags and caps. Schuttenberg acknowledges that he’s “as white as they come,” and says he fell hard for Asian cooking while working under Zakary Pelaccio in New York City at the Malaysian-inspired gastropub Fatty Crab. He says he found the parallels between the foods of the American Southeast and southeastern China “were too great to ignore,” and he experiments freely with them (think vegetable bao with collards in place of Chinese greens). Don’t miss the Cantonese-style roast duck; it requires a day’s advance order, but the succulent meat and crunchy skin make the planning worth it." - Lauren Mowery