Fried Milk with Pine Nuts

A scholar has noted that ‘the Chinese and other eastern and Southeast Asian peoples do not merely have an aversion to the use of milk, they loathe it intensely, reacting to the prospect of gulping down a nice, cold glass of the stuff much as Westerners might react to the prospect of a nice, cold glass of cow saliva. Less than 5 per cent of adult Chinese can absorb milk lactose.’ It is therefore quite surprising to find many popular milk dishes in Hong Kong. The chefs there have ingeniously