sambal sauce seabass 26.8.2015 – this everyone’s favourite
in addition to the spicy pork ribs/pork soft bones, another regular crowd pleaser for my dinners is the sambal sauce seabass (& spicy tau jeon seabass). ^^
i love the dish myself & all my friends love it too. in fact i think it is more popular even than the spicy pork ribs. 🙂
i guess fish is more neutral, tender & easy to eat even when placed against a very tender pork ribs or soft bones.
it’s a dish my helper cooked regularly for the family & for my dinners. i have done only once.
& i have served it many times in my dinners for my friends. 🙂
sambal seabass – 6.2.2015
above photo does not require elaborations, haha! ^^
sambal seabass – 3.10.2014
the farmed seabass in singapore is not like the australian barramundi or the french seabass. it has a bit of “mud taste” and is a bit “hu” ie not the very firm, bouncy type of texture, but slightly mushy.
sambal sauce seabass – 28.5.2015
certainly not my favourite fish.
btw, my favourite fish, even more than usual cod, is the chilean seabass, the patagonian toothfish, which is not even a bass, but a cod. 🙂
spicy tau jeon seabass – 19.8.2013
by steaming with the spicy tau jeon sauce, and in more recent times, the sambal sauce, not only it took away the “mud taste”, but complemented the fish sweetness very well. also, i believe the sauce tensioned the skin a bit & made the fish just slightly more firm & less mushy. 🙂
hai’s 海士 instant assam fish paste
i used the hai’s 海士 instant assam fish paste in recent times, as we liked it a bit better than the spicy tau jeon, and also because i could not find the latter in giant lately.
i used 1 packet for a large seabass (700g) or 2 smaller ones (500g), and garnished chopped spring onions & chilli padi (sometimes my helper used sliced red chilli & spring onions). then in the steam oven (or a usual steamer) for 12mins.
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