Sweet-Sour Fish


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Materials:

      One live fish (1000g)
      50g vinegar
      60g sugar
      2g finely chopped ginger
Preparations

  Clean the fish, cut open along the backbone, make 3-5 cuts along the inside but do not cut through the skin.

  With the skin up place in boiling water, boil for 3 minutes.

  Skim, pour off the soup till only 250g is left.

  Add soy sauce, wine and ginger, cook till the flavor penetrates, remove the fish to a plate.

  Add sugar, vinegar and wet cornstarch to the soup, bring to the boil, skim, pour over the fish.

Bean Curd


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Materials:
750g bean curd  ,50g dried scallops soaked in water
50g sea cucumbers soaked in water
, 25g mushrooms soaked in water
25g winter bamboo shoots
,100g streaky pork
50g fresh shrimps
,25g ham
25g Chinese water chestnuts

Preparations

  To make the filling dice the scallops, sea cucumbers, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots,
 pork, and water chestnuts, scald together with fresh shrimps and drain.

  Add cooking wine, salt and leave for a while.

  Slice the ham.

  Cut one slice from the bean curd to serve as a lid, remove the insides of the bean curd,
fill the hollow with filling, place the lid over the filling.

  Arrange the pork slices around the bean curd in a casserole, add soup stock and seasoning,
simmer over a low heat for an hour, and pour into a bowl.

  Boil the soup stock, thicken, pour over the bean curd.

Ham in Syrup


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Materials:
400g ham
50g dehearted steamed lotus seeds
1 green plum
5 cherries
crystal sugar
,  2g sweet osmanthus

Preparations

  Clean the ham, cut into 12 cubes still attached to the skin, add cooking wine,
crystal sugar and water and steam for 1 hour, pour out the syrup
 
and repeat this step with new wine, sugar and water.

  Add 25g of cooking, 25g of crystal sugar, lotus seeds and water,
and steam again for 90 minutes.

  Place the ham in a soup-plate with the skin up, circle with lotus seeds,
decorate with the green plums and cherries.

  Pour 50g water into a wok, add 25g crystal sugar and sieved syrup, c
hicken with cornstarch, pour over the ham cubes.

Fish Ball Soup


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Materials:
One live silver carp (500g)
3 pieces of ham
3 pieces of cooked bamboo shoot
25g tender pea shoots
one mushroom

Preparations

  Wash, bone and skin the carp, take out the flesh from the two sides, chop finely to a mash,

add condiments, stir with force in one direction, and leave to expand.

  Shape the carp mash into balls, put in a saucepan of warm water to "heal" for a while,

bring the water to the boil, lower the heat, simmer till done.

  Boil some clear soup, add condiments, drop in the fish balls, cook for a while,

transfer to a soup bowl, add strips of bamboo shoot, ham and mushrooms.



Banana Fish Sandwiches


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Materials:
one yellow croaker(1000g)
3 bananas
, 15g green soybeans
5g scallion shreds, 5g ginger shreds
75g tomato ketchup
, 2g pepper
75g sugar
, 25g vinegar

Preparations:

  Clean the fish, take the middle part, bone it, cut into butterfly shaped slices,
marinate in salt, wine, MSG and pepper.

  Cut the bananas into thick slices, sandwich between the fish slices,
smear the fish with dry flour, deep fry in 4 flod hot oil until the coating hardens.

  Flavour oil with scallion and ginger, add tomato ketchup, salt, wine, sugar, vinegar and water,
on boiling drop in the fish sandwiches, cook till done, remove.

  Boil down the sauce, add green soybeans, boil for a while, sprinkle over the fish sandwichs.

Lotus Root Sandwiches with Purple Rice


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Materials:
500g fresh lotus root
500g purple glutinous rice
500g minced chicken
one lotus leaf

Preparations

  Steam the purple rice till done.

  Peal and boil till cooked the lotus root, cut into rounds.

  Mix together to make a paste the purple rice, minced chicken, salt, MSG, one egg white and 30g dissolved corn starch.

  Make sandwiches out of the lotus root rounds with the paste for filling.

  Make batter out of 2 egg whites and 30g cornstarch.

  Coat the lotus sandwiches with the egg batter, and deep-fry till golden brown.

  Scald the lotus leaf, and spread on a plate, place the lotus sandwiches on top, and recreate the lotus root.

  Serve with plates of spiced salt.

 

Preparations

  Steam the purple rice till done.

  Peal and boil till cooked the lotus root, cut into rounds.

  Mix together to make a paste the purple rice, minced chicken, salt, MSG, one egg white and 30g dissolved corn starch.

  Make sandwiches out of the lotus root rounds with the paste for filling.

  Make batter out of 2 egg whites and 30g cornstarch.

  Coat the lotus sandwiches with the egg batter, and deep-fry till golden brown.

  Scald the lotus leaf, and spread on a plate, place the lotus sandwiches on top, and recreate the lotus root.

  Serve with plates of spiced salt.

Shrimp Balls in Tomato Sauce


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Materials:
50g clean shrimps
75g fat pork mince
2 egg whites
50g tomato ketchup
1g minced ginger
10g soup-stock
Shaoxing rice wine
85g sugar
100g soup stock
Preparations:

  Mash the shrimps and fat pork mince together, add egg white and corn starch, mix well.

  Make the mixture into eight balls.

  Drop them into oil and deep-fry until they swell, then drain off the oil.

  Fry some minced ginger quickly in a wok in hot oil, pour in tomato ketchup and saute out red oil, add condiments and cornstarch solution, drop in the shrimp balls and roll them in the sauce.