A dish, a story. The aquatic chapter.

Author: Yiwen
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: The dishes in this volume, "Aquatic Products," primarily feature a variety of aquatic ingredients such as fish, shrimp, crabs, snakes, soft-shell turtles, snails, clams, sea cucumbers, and shark fin. The ingredients are abundant; the cooking methods include steaming, deep-frying, pickling, marinating, stir-frying, braising, quick-frying, stewing, pan-frying, grilling, slow-cooking,, boiling, sauce-cooking, braising, poaching, stuffing, etc., with diverse techniques; the flavors range from fresh and light to rich and savory, sweet and sour, sweet and salty, wine-flavored, fragrant, crispy, spicy, pickled, and more, offering unique tastes; some dishes are household names, well-known and familiar, such as ginger-sesame stir-fried crab, braised tile fish, squirrel-style Mandarin fish, Longjing shrimp, pickled quick-fried fish slices; while others are less common or even unheard of, such as sky-reaching shark fin, red cotton shrimp balls, black dragon playing with pearls, fish biting lamb, water-pink peach fish, and Four-Star Watching the Moon, among the over sixty dishes, each has a story that either makes people laugh, brightens one's mood, increases knowledge, inspires thoughts, or provokes deep reflection.