""House of Nanking" features more than 100 recipes culled from three generations of Fang family dishes, inspired by the foods of Canton and Shanghai. Part history, part technique, part equipment list and part sourcing manifest, it's aimed at helping home cooks learn which tools they need to make some of the restaurant's favorite dishes, like sesame chicken with sweet potato fries, garlic eggplant, and shrimp in Tsingtao beer."
"In 1988 her parents started the legendary House of Nanking on Kearney Street, famed for its long lines and the many celebrities who've enjoyed meals there, including Keanu Reeves, Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Oldman. The restaurant, a legacy business in Chinatown and among America's favorite Chinese restaurants, was named for a place her grandfather, also a chef, had visited in Shanghai. It is also the name of the new cookbook, reprinted just in time for Lunar New Year, which begins Feb. 17."
""My parents would leave me in the restaurant while they were working, but when it got too busy, I would go my grandma's eight-seater and help her out. One of my friends was one store down, and we'd hang out until my grandma closed at 5 p.m. She'd take me to her house and cook dinner, and I would fall asleep and wait for my parents.""
Kathy Fang's parents opened the House of Nanking on Kearney Street in 1988, a Chinatown restaurant known for long lines and celebrity diners including Keanu Reeves, Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Oldman. The restaurant name traces to a place Fang's grandfather visited in Shanghai. The cookbook House of Nanking, reprinted for Lunar New Year beginning Feb. 17, compiles more than 100 recipes across three generations, drawing from Cantonese and Shanghainese traditions. The book blends history, technique, equipment recommendations and sourcing tips to help home cooks recreate signature dishes. Fang, a two-time Chopped champion and Food Network personality, grew up in family restaurants, briefly pursued corporate work at Merrill Lynch and Johnson & Johnson, and returned to cooking after finding corporate life unsatisfying.
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