Wall Street to wok-house: Kathy Fang preserves a Chinatown dynasty
Kathy Fang, daughter of House of Nanking’s founders, left a corporate career at Merrill Lynch (and later Johnson & Johnson) to return to the family restaurant, publish a cookbook, and become a TV personality, helping to brand the legacy while keeping the business small and rooted in San Francisco’s Chinatown; her parents initially resisted, but the venture now aims to be multigenerational despite pandemic challenges and celebrity attention.