Saffron fish consommé with salmon-roe cream and toasted shallot

I was amazed and delighted when travellers told me about salmonroe cream. I did not have a recipe so I constructed one from their description and used shallots to enhance and offset the fish flavour, a typical Chinese ploy. The salmon roe is the exciting element in this soup because the beat from the clear stock explodes the roe in your mouth. One of my uncles, who is very much the Chinese gourmet, commented on this dish when be came to Neddy’s. He called it ‘lively’, and I took that as a g