Granny’s Potato Salad

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Chinese-American Barbecue: Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen

By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

In Chinese cuisine, we often blend sweet and savory flavors together. I learned a long time ago in pastry school to always add a pinch of salt into all my desserts. I know it sounds weird, but the savoriness brings out the sweetness. And I think the same goes for why Chinese people love sweet and savory recipes like orange chicken and sweet and sour pork. I thought I’d apply this same concept to our potato salad at the restaurant. The name of this potato salad refers to the Granny Smith app