Pickled Daikon and Carrots

甜酸红白萝卜

Preparation info
  • Makes about 3 cups 300 g to serve

    2 to 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: This is a versatile quick pickle that we use at Fang in our Southeast Asian Tofu Bowl; to give our famous bao an acidic, crunchy pop; and also serve dressed in sesame oil and fried shallots as a cold dish appetizer. In Chinese culture, eating something sour prior to a meal is said to wake up one’s appetite. So, this would be a great precursor to a larger meal, or you can use it as a sweet and sour condiment on any d

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