Name: Razor Clams with Black Bean Chilli (豉椒蟶子)
Yield: Serves 3–4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 cloves of garlic; ½ a thumb-size piece of ginger; 12 fresh razor clams (swapsies: 500 g/1 lb 2 oz fresh mussels); fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves, to garnish; vegetable oil, for frying; 1 fresh red chilli; 2 teaspoons preserved fermented black beans; 1 spring onion (scallion); 1 teaspoon sugar; 100 ml (3½ fl oz/⅓ cup) chicken stock; ½ tablespoon oyster sauce; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; 1 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine; ½ tablespoon hoisin sauce

Preparation info

Serves
3–4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hong Kong Diner

By Jeremy Pang

Published 2017

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Ingredients

2 cloves of garlic
½ a thumb-size piece of ginger
2 teaspoons

Method

Finely chop the garlic and ginger, then ideally put into a mortar, or alternatively a food processor. Wash the fermented black beans, and add to the mortar or food processor and crush together to form a paste. Finely chop the red chilli and spring onion (scallion), keeping them separate. Combine all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl or ramekin.

Soak the razor clams in salted cold wa