Tofu and Kalimeris Salad

马兰头

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
House of Nanking: Family Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite Chinese Restaurant

By Kathy Fang and Peter Fang

Published 2025

  • About

PETER: Whenever I make this dish at home, it makes me think about my childhood years in Shanghai. On those sweltering summer days, my younger brother and I would spend hours sprawled out on the concrete floors in the hallway of our home, which felt like the coolest place in the building. Our mom would summon us to the dining room for lunch, where she treated us to an array of cold dishes she’d prepared. One of the most refreshing things she would make was mă lán tóu, marina