A chef made Keanu Reeves wait in line, then called him Sean Connery. He came back 23 years later.

A chef made Keanu Reeves wait in line, then called him Sean Connery. He came back 23 years later.

There is exactly one rule that has never bent at House of Nanking, the cramped, beloved Shanghainese spot in San Francisco’s Chinatown: everyone waits. No one skips the line. Not Francis Ford Coppola, not anyone. So, in 1997, when a young actor in all black turned up hoping for a table, Peter Fang did what he did to everybody. His daughter Kathy, then a starstruck fan, recognized the man instantly and begged her father to let him skip the line. …