Nanking’s Sesame Chicken

南京芝麻鸡

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  • 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: This sesame chicken is probably the most famous dish at our restaurant. I’ve already covered the origin story—one day, a customer asked me to make them something that tasted like Thanksgiving. I couldn’t give them turkey . . . but moist, succulent chicken thigh meat is better than turkey, anyway. I thinly sliced sweet potatoes and fried them, another nod to American Thanksgiving. I guess you could say people like it, because now we go t

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