Steamed Sea Bass in Stir-fried Yellow Bean Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      15 min

Appears in
China Modern: 100 Cutting-Edge, Fusion-Style Recipes for the 21st Century

By Ching-He Huang

Published 2006

  • About

This is the perfect recipe to serve at Chinese New Year as the Mandarin word for fish is ‘Yu’, which also sounds like the ‘Yu’ in the Chinese phrase ‘Nian Nian You Yu’, which means ‘Every year you have abundance’ whether it’s wealth, health, happiness, luck or love. This is a phrase you say to family and friends to wish them well in the New Year. The Chinese are superstitious and believe that you should serve the fish whole including the head as it symbolizes completeness and unity. So if i