{"id":130656,"date":"2026-03-05T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130656\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:49:09","slug":"la-kang-thai-chicken-and-rice-restaurant-in-bethlehem-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130656\/","title":{"rendered":"La Kang Thai chicken and rice restaurant in Bethlehem closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Thai chicken and rice restaurant in Bethlehem will soon close after roughly one year of operation.<\/p>\n<p>La Kang Chicken &amp; Rice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1AzZP7TeyS\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> it will close Monday at 15 E. Fourth St.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly grateful for all the love and support the community has shown us,\u201d the restaurant said. \u201cEvery visit, every meal shared, and every kind word has meant the world to us. This decision allows us to focus on a new project that is coming up, but the memories we\u2019ve created here will always stay with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>It opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/03\/11\/new-thai-chicken-and-rice-restaurant-to-open-in-bethlehem-next-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a> as another project from the people behind the Lehigh Valley\u2019s La Kang Thai French Cuisine and La Kang Thai Noodles Bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Thai chicken and rice restaurant in Bethlehem will soon close after roughly one year of operation. La&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,60,182,434,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-130656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}