Nanking’s Sesame Prawns

芝麻大虾

Preparation info
  • Serves

    1

    • 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 reminisce about the early House of Nanking days with our original fans, they always talk about a dish we called “Prawns in Twin Happiness Sauce.” It was one of our most popular offerings and was basically a two-for-one deal: these sesame prawns, plus prawns in beer sauce. Back then, a lot of the quick dine-in Chinese restaurants in Chinatown had combo plates. You could pick two entrees to add to your rice plate and it fel