Spicy Fish Slices

Name: Spicy Fish Slices (Su shih hsun yu)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 3 green onions; 1-½ cups boiling water; ½ teaspoon salt; 4 tablespoons sugar; 1-¼ pounds fish meat (any white fish meat); 1-¼ pounds fish meat (any white fish meat); 1 teaspoon five spice powder (wu hsiang fen); 5 slices ginger; 1 tablespoon wine; 5 tablespoons soy sauce; 5 cups oil

Su shih hsun yu

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1-¼ pounds fish meat (any white fish meat)
½ teaspoon salt
4

Asia
Taiwan
Kiangsu
Fish course
Dinner
Pescatarian

Method

Slice the fish meat in 1-½” wide and 2-½” long thick slices (about 16 slices).
Crush green onion and ginger. Put in bowl with soy sauce, wine and salt. Marinate the fish slices with this mixture for about 3-4 hours.
Mix sugar and five spice powder in a bowl add boiling water to mix well.
Heat oil very hot in frying pan, fry the fish until ve