"Chef Kathy Fang spent her entire childhood in the streets and markets of San Francisco's Chinatown mostly within the walls of House of Nanking, the cozy restaurant her parents started in 1988, not long after emigrating from China. Her father, Peter Fang, was the only chef, cooking for all their patrons in a single wok at the front of the small building. Her mother, Lily, was often running to the neighborhood Chinese market for fresh ingredients, sometimes twice in one day."
"From the ripe old age of 7, Kathy was Peter's guinea pig and in-house critic. "I basically taste tested everything my dad made," she tells NPR. "I was his sounding board." Though the restaurant is a beloved mainstay of the neighborhood today, Peter says business was slow in the early days until a rave review in the San Francisco Chronicle changed everything overnight."
Kathy Fang grew up working inside her parents' restaurant, House of Nanking, which her parents opened in 1988 after emigrating from China. Peter Fang cooked as the sole chef in a single wok while Lily Fang frequently sourced fresh ingredients from neighborhood markets. Kathy began taste-testing her father's dishes at age seven and later became his business partner and a celebrated chef with television and competition experience. Early business slowed until a rave San Francisco Chronicle review brought sudden lines. Peter, now 76, continues to run House of Nanking with Kathy; they also co-own another restaurant and published a family cookbook.
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