Saturday, January 19, 2008

Baked Oyster 假禾虫


I love rice worms 禾虫 and carp guts 魚腸. Sounds gross, doesn't it? They can easily be made into something truly horrible, every sickening, literally. I do like them best, when made well, baked with egg. One way to bake in this manner is with oyster. Definitely more appetizing to most. Here I parboiled the oysters for a couple of minutes first. Chopped garlic, ginger and scallion are sautéed before aged dried orange peels, Chinese dry cured olives 欖豉 and the oysters. Mixed it all into an equal proportion egg and chicken stock mixture and into a clay pot and sliced chinese donuts 油條 is laid over the egg. The pot is then steamed covered until set. I passed it through the broiler until brown on top right before serving. So good.

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