Banana cream pie with a flaky crust, custard-set bananas and whipped cream, the signature dessert at Frank Fat's downtown Chinese-American room since 1939.
Frank Fat opened the room at 806 L Street, Sacramento in November 1939, two blocks from the State Capitol, and the banana cream pie became the dessert order for legislators and lobbyists working into the night across the street. The pie was a Wing Fat family recipe from Frank's wife Mary, with a flaky pastry crust, sliced ripe bananas folded into a vanilla custard and whipped cream on top, and it has been the signature dessert at Frank Fat's continuously since the late 1940s. Three generations of the Fat family have kept the pie on the menu unchanged, and it has appeared on every list of Sacramento's defining dishes since the 1990s, the city's longest-running named restaurant dessert.
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