Recognized throughout higher Los Angeles for its specialty Asian sweets, Phoenix Dessert opens in Kearny Mesa this weekend the place it replaces Snoice within the Clairemont Mesa Boulevard complicated that additionally homes Yakitori Hino. Pacific Coast Industrial facilitated either side of the lease.

Proprietor Elena Chang and her household oversee an empire that started nearly 60 years in the past in Chinatown when her in-laws opened the still-running Phoenix Inn, one in every of LA’s basic eating places, which is centered round Cantonese delicacies. Greater than 30 years after its founding, Phoenix Inn branched out to Alhambra, the place Chang developed a brand new dessert menu after attending the Cordon Bleu. Ultimately, the household opened a devoted dessert store subsequent door and now operates 9 Phoenix Meals Boutiques that mix dishes from Phoenix Inn and Phoenix Dessert.

The Kearny Mesa location is the corporate’s first outdoors of the LA space, an enlargement spurred by demand from clients who typically drive up from San Diego for Phoenix’s desserts, says Chang.

Although it’ll supply choose savory objects like soy-marinated hen wings, curry fish balls, and crispy shrimp rolls, the store will primarily deal with its premium desserts.

Durian and mango rolls.

Durian and mango rolls.
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Amongst its bestsellers are recent mochi, together with inexperienced tea mochi with black sesame filling and strawberry mochi with pink bean filling, in addition to mochi durian rolls that includes Thai monthong durian. There’s additionally longan or Hong Kong milk tea ice cream, mango shave ice, and fervour fruit panna cotta.

A plate of fresh fruit and a drink.

Blended fruit delight.
Phoenix Dessert

Different specialties embrace dessert soups in flavors like black sticky rice with younger coconut, pink bean and lotus seed, and black sesame, for which the kitchen roasts three forms of sesame seeds and grinds them right into a silky textured candy soup. Phoenix additionally serves drinks, starting from an natural kumquat and honey refresher to a coconut milk-based beverage with sago pearls and recent mango, watermelon, and honeydew.

Chang tells Eater that if all goes nicely, she will be able to foresee the corporate opening up two extra Phoenix places in San Diego.

Purple sticky rice and young coconut.

Purple sticky rice and younger coconut.
Phoenix Dessert

Phoenix Dessert Menu

7420 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Suite 108, San Diego, CA 92111