Sliced Fish Bee Hoon

Hawker versions of this soup are sometimes spiked with fresh or evaporated milk for body; this short-cut is not at all necessary as long as you take care to use enough bones and fry them well in step 2, which will make your broth rich and cloudy. You can use bones from other white-fleshed fish for the stock, but avoid those from very oily fish like salmon and mackerel, as they may impart off-flavours to it. The coriander (cilantro) roots are not traditional, but they add savouriness to the