KATHY: Although you’d never guess it based on the name, the origins of this dish come from a Ningbo specialty called stinky tofu. My restaurant grandma served Ningbonese and Shanghainese cuisine at her restaurant, Star Lunch (Shànghăi Xiăo Chī), on Jackson Street, just a couple steps away from House of Nanking. Up front, she had the oldest cash register I’d ever seen—it looked like a triple-decker typewriter—and next to that, there was always a large bucket of moldy stinky
