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While some lament the loss of Rosemallows—Jimmy Han’s second concept at 3rd Street and Long Beach Boulevard following Beer Belly—lament not. Leonard Chan, the man behind restaurant and bar group The Alchemists, is moving in.

Like a true industry champion, he’s holding onto existing staff and trying to reopen as soon as possible to keep them paid. He is coming with a Chinese apothecary-meets-rotating speakeasy with family recipes from Northern China and late-night dim sum.

Think Chinese apothecary bar complete with late-night dim sum and family recipes from Leonard’s family. (That family deserves a story of its own: Leonard’s parents had to flee Communist China as his mother’s father was a four-star general under revolutionary army leader Chiang Kai-shek. This forced his mother to first emigrate to Taiwan, followed by the United States. Before meeting his mother, his father fled from Guangdong to Hong Kong before coming to the States.)

“We’re doing some Northern Chinese dishes because my Mom is from Hebei,” Leonard said. “Some Taiwanese recipes. And then some late-night dim sum so we can just steam what we’ve been prepping all day to make the night run a bit smoother.”