Fermented Bean Curd Sauce

腐乳酱

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    ¼

    cup
    • 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: Every first-gen Asian kid has probably had their stinky lunch moment at some point in their life. For me it was not a moment; it was more like a five-year, drawn-out experience that went from full embarrassment to me just growing a hard shell and not being bothered by it. It didn’t help that I had the ugliest lunch bag ever. All the other kids had either cool themed lunch boxes or paper bags. I had a Chinatown plastic grocery bag, ostensibly because it’s reusable and