2 steamed 鲈鱼

sis & bil came for lunch & dinner today on 24.11.2017. ^^

沙茶酱阳春面

I made some 沙茶酱捞阳春面 for lunch, same as what i did for my OPS bro WM yesterday.

2 steamed 鲈鱼 + fried spinach

for dinner i made 清蒸鲈鱼..& the leftover pig organs soup. ^^

recently in shanghai, we were treated to 鲥鱼 quite a few times…it was like 1/2 fish for RMB360, like S$75…

& there it was like a must eat dish…i quite like it, though they added sugar & it was a bit sweet in my opinion…but to pay S$75 for 1/2  鲥鱼, not quite my cup of tea after a first must try…

2 鲈鱼 from sheng shiong for S$3.90

2 鲈鱼 from sheng shiong for S$3.90

i bought 2 鲈鱼from sheng shiong $3.90..

this of course is a cheap fish. i wanted to use this to experiment making the 鲥鱼 dish, also a river fish with many tiny bones, and sweet.

2 steamed 鲈鱼

i googled online recipe for  鲥鱼…

the only distinctive part of the preparation i think was steaming the fish separately & leaving out the broth…

this of course quite a common method just that normally i don’t do that for my other steam fish preparation.

this cheap 鲈鱼 being quite fishy…it makes sense to do that…

i steamed for 8mins (about 600g+ for 2 鲈鱼)

 

for the sauce, i used my usual 2-3tbsp light soy sauce, 2tbsp olive oil & 2tbsp mirin…i had sliced ginger & uncut chilli padi which i fried first in the olive oil. can also add chopped garlic. then added the other light soy sauce & mirin. off fire & added the celery for garnishing.

then poured the hot sauce over the steamed 鲈鱼 and arranged the ginger pieces & the celery garnishing.

2 steamed 鲈鱼

this preparation in my view very much approximates 鲥鱼…

sweet, tender, lots of bones like鲥鱼but no sugar added..quite excellent taste for very cheap fish👍

pig organs soup

pig organs soup

we had the usual fried spinach. and the leftover pig organ soup with kidney, liver, pork balls & sliced pork.

quite an excellent dinner for 3pax, haha!

c.h.e.f andy