James Fan, Executive Chef & Owner
Shanghai Noon Restaurant

Chef James Fan was born in the northern part of China in Shenyang, the Royal City of the Qing Dynasty. He's Father was a professional military men and ran the Family in the traditional Chinese custom where the mother stayed home and spoiled everyone with good old fashioned cooking.

At the age of seven little James was send to Taiwan to study Chinese opera. His specialty became martial arts, kung-fu to fight and to dance like a cat.
Ten years later at the tender age of seventeen he reunited with his family in Hong-Kong. There he joined the show biz empire of Bruce Lee to make movies.
In 1974 the Peking Opera had an engagement in San Francisco. Afterwards the Opera team returned to China, but without Chef Fan.

He now actively pursued a professional career in cooking, practicing and perfecting the cooking skills he learned in China. He's Love of cooking made him work in fine Chinese Restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In his spare time, he also worked for the CBS network on shows like Marshal Law and Chuck Norris "Texas Ranger".

In 1983 Chef Fan became Executive Chef at the famed Jade West Restaurant in Century City, California. 

In 2001 he opened his own “Shanghai Noon Restaurant" in Las Vegas, which is famous for its Northern Chinese cuisine.