Nanking Sauce

南京酱

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    cups
    • 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: When my dad hears the word “marketing,” he usually runs the other way—which is why I was so surprised when one day he decided to take a stab at “marketing” one of our most popular sauces. Our Nanking Sauce is essentially sweet and sour sauce, minus the food coloring, artificial flavor, and ultra-thick goopiness, plus a pop of acid, subtle sweetness, and a kick of spice. It’s good on everything—shrimp, scallops, mushrooms, pork, you name it—and our customers were obse

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