Fish Cake Peasant-Style

This recipe illustrates Hong Kong’s receptivity to innovation. This is a traditional peasant dish, identified with the poorer people of the countryside. However, because it is both nutritious and easy to prepare, as well as cheap, it is an ideal ‘convenience’ food for the busy urban workers of Hong Kong, not all of whom are poor, by any means. Rather, food merchants and restaurateurs understand their market and are quick to supply any perceived demand. Mounds of puréed fresh raw fish are av