Cantonese-Style Steamed Fish

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as part of a multicourse Chinese meal (or 1 as a main course)
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Bones: Recipes, History, And Lore

By Jennifer McLagan

Published 2005

  • About

Steamed fish is always part of a multicourse Chinese dinner. The Chinese steam the fish whole, as they know some of the best eating is in the head. My friends Karen and Vincent told me how good the steamed fish was at a certain Toronto Chinese restaurant, so we all went to eat it there. As they are regular customers, they arranged for me to see it being cooked. I watched as a live grouper was taken from the tank, killed, prepared for the steamer, and on the