Charles Phan, Whose Slanted Door Elevated Vietnamese Food, Dies at 62

Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose family fled Vietnam when he was a teenager and whose sleek restaurant helped change America’s perception of Asian food by replacing menus of inexpensive noodle dishes and spring rolls with ones that married the best local ingredients with the food he grew up on, died on Monday in San Francisco. He was 62.His death, in a hospital, where he was taken last week after…