Beautiful South by Kwei Fei

"The team behind Sichuan restaurant Kwei Fei opened Beautiful South to serve Cantonese and Chinese-American takeout classics. At lunch, diners will find Hainanese chicken rice, sweet and sour pork, bourbon chicken, golden fried rice, spicy noodles, and more." - Erin Perkins

"Chinese restaurant Beautiful South now offers a dim sum menu on Sundays. With items like Hong Kong-style French toast, it can be considered brunch. There’s also mushroom congee, dry-rubbed pork ribs, scallion pancakes, pork dumplings, Taiwanese chicken wings, and much more." - Erin Perkins

"Chinese restaurant offering free ham and bourbon from Lady Edison Pork and Virgil Kaine." - Erin Perkins

"David Schuttenberg and Tinae Heath-Schuttenberg, the owners of James Island’s Kwei Fei—every in-the-know Charelstonian’s destination for Sichuan spice—opened Beautiful South last summer in a modern industrial space downtown. Although Schuttenberg acknowledges that he’s “as white as they come,” he fell hard for Asian cooking while working under Zakary Pelaccio in New York City at the Malaysian-inspired gastropub Fatty Crab. Schuttenberg says he found the parallels between the foods of the American Southeast and southeastern China—seafood, rice, sorghum—“were too great to ignore,” and he experiments freely with them in his cooking. (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."

"The team behind Sichuan restaurant Kwei Fei has a new downtown spot serving Cantonese and Chinese-American takeout classics. Beautiful South is a fun new space to explore menu items like crab rangoon, pork dumplings, and XO clams for lunch and dinner." - Erin Perkins