Remembering the House of Nanking

This past July our family went to California on vacation. I must say that it has to be the best vacation I have been on. I don't think visiting wineries had anything to do with the decision but you never know! Anyway, one of the best places we stopped to eat was at the House of Nanking in San Francisco. It was a very small, dingy place with tables that were pushed close together and needed a few pieces of cardboard under one leg to keep it steady. After a long day of tourism, we walked 20blocks to go eat at the House. We were very lucky to get there when there was no line. The day we first spotted this place, the line was 40 people deep so we figured it had to be good. We sat at the end of a table that had a couple sitting at the other end. They offered us a taste of their food off their plates and recommended some things to order. Lexi had Fried Potstickers as usual, I had Nanking Sesame Chicken with veggies and sweet potatoes and Bill had 5 Spice Whitefish with jade spinach. We all shared Fried Shrimpackets with sesame sauce. One items was better than the next. I will make an attempt to recreate these recipes and post the results. My biggest challenge is the shrimpackets - shrimp, baby green peas and sesame sauce in a pastry packet and deep fried!