""For my parents being very traditional, they also didn't want me to do it,""
""In fact, we have a saying that, you know, if you don't cut it in school, you can always go be a cook because it's considered manual labor. You don't need to have a proper education to go work in a kitchen.""
""It took me decades,""
""He thought that if he shared his recipes, people would just make it at home and not come to the restaurant anymore.""
House of Nanking regularly draws long lines in San Francisco's Chinatown, operating from a cramped, high-energy dining room beneath a multicolored sign on Kearny Street. Kathy Fang chose to work in and eventually inherit the family restaurant despite her parents' expectation that she pursue formal education rather than manual labor. Her parents started the restaurant out of necessity and initially resisted passing the business on or sharing recipes. Kathy spent decades convincing her father to allow a cookbook, while the restaurant grew into a local institution with celebrity patrons largely unrecognized by her parents.
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