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Local Favorite: Frank Ma South

If you like the city's Chinese food, it's probably because of Frank Ma.
By CHRISTIANE LAUTERBACH

If Frank Ma had gone into the import-export business, as he meant to, the world might have gained a tycoon, but Atlanta never would have found one of its most revered chefs and restaurateurs. Born Hong-Min Ma in Beijing in 1940—the year of the dragon, an auspicious sign for boys—he experienced some of the worst years in Chinese history, ending up in a Taiwanese orphanage after his father, an officer in the army of Chiang Kai-shek, died in a shipwreck. READ MORE
 

REVIEW ARCHIVES

August 2008: Rediscovery: Au Rendez-Vous
July 2008: Dynamic Dish
June 2008: Cuerno
April 2008: Stats
March 2008: Lola 
February 2008: Beleza
January 2008: C&S Seafood & Oyster Bar
December 2007: The Chocolate Bar
November 2007: Kevin Rathbun Steak
October 2007: French American Brasserie
 September 2007: Rare