Shrimp Cakes with Peanut Sauce

虾饼配花生酱

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    12

    to serve 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

KATHY: Hanging on Nanking’s wall is a clipping from a column by the Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco journalist Herb Caen. It reads, “At the House of Nanking, writer Edwin Heaven was making a pitch to Francis Ford Coppola about his script, ‘The Lobster & the Mobster.’ Francis, between bites of fiery-hot shrimp cakes and gulps of Chinese beer: ‘Well, mobsters, they are always in season, but try to find a good lobster