Name: Zao Liu Yu Pian (Stir-Fried Fish Fillets With Cloud Ears a Nd Cucumbers)
Yield: Serves 4 as Part of a Chinese Meal, or 2 as a Single Dish.
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon rice wine or dry sherry; 2 tablespoons light soy sauce; 700 g/1½ lb thick-cut fillets of any firm, white-fleshed fish such as cod, halibut, scrod or red snapper, or 800 g/1¾ lb fish steaks on the bone; 2 teaspoons cornflour mixed with 1 teaspoon water; 225 ml/8 fl oz chicken stock; ½ tablespoon finely chopped peeled garlic; 1 tablespoon finely chopped peeled fresh ginger root; 25 g/1 oz cloud ear fungus; 225 g/8 oz cucumber, about 1; 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce; 3 tablespoons peanut oil; 2 teaspoons salt; 1½ tablespoon rice wine or dry sherry; 2 teaspoons cornflour

Preparation info

Serves
4
as Part of a Chinese Meal, or 2 as a Single Dish.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Taste of China

By Ken Hom

Published 1990

About

Students of Chinese cuisine know, and countless of its recipes illustrate, that China could be called the land of mushrooms. The commercial cultivation of mushrooms began in China around the mid-seventh century, about one thousand years before European cultivation began in France. There are about three hundred kinds of mushrooms to be found in China; eighty-three of these varieties are known to be poisonous. Since it is impossible to identify with certainty some of the poisonous mushroom