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Seafood

Yellow Curry Fish (Gouper) Head Hot Pot. 黃咖喱魚頭煲.Using a big size deep sea fish head to make this yellow curry hot pot, the fatty fish head just matches with a mild curry with rich coconut taste, not over taking each other. Great taste for a curry lover!

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Baked Crunchy Golden Pomfret 焗香脆金鎗魚. It is not necessary to deep fried fish for crunchiness, use baking method can also do it too. It is great to serve with either ketchup or sweet Thai chili sauce.

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Ketchup Prawn 茄汁大蝦. It is a very common Cantonese dish. Pan-fried fresh water prawn with ketcup and other ingredients to create a strong flavor sauce coated on the shelled prawn. NO table manner requires to eat this dish because sucking the prawn's head and licking the sauce on the shell are necessary.

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Salmon Asparagus Rolls 蜜糖芝麻三文露荀卷. Roll up pieces of salmon belly to shape like flowers around Asparagus. It doesn't just look gorgeous but delicious. With the unique home made honey soy sauce and granish with toasted sesame seed. Oh! Incredibly good!

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Deep-fried Crispy Oyster 炸生蠔. It is crunchy outside and soft inside. Fresh juicy oysters are wrapped with thin crunchy batter.

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Stir-fried Crabs with Ginger Spring Onion 薑葱炒蟹. It is a very family style stir-fried dish. Easy and Quick to cook. But the sauce is so delicious to serve rice.

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Hot and spicy is famous in "Wu Nan" dishes. Steam Fish with Lotus Leaf 荷葉蒸辣魚 adds the extra fragrance to the dish. This hot and spicy seafood dish will definitely increase your appetite.

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Just let pork absorb all crab juice when steaming crab without adding water in it. This Steam Pork with Crab 蟹蒸蛋砵 is full of delicious crab juice.

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Jumbo Seafood Pockets 珍寶海鮮袋 are not just crispy but they also satisfy seafood fans'  desires.

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Stir-fried Shrimps and Minced Pork with Spicy Sauce 肉醬豆板炒蝦球. Mixed chili bean sauce (To ban sauce) with other chinese sauce ingredients can create another kind of spicy favor and brings the food to another level of taste.   

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Deep-fried Soft Shell Crab with Sweet Chili Sauce 炸軟殼蟹拌酸甜辣醬. The texture of fried soft shell crab is crunchy and juicy. It is great to eat the whole crab without the trouble of peeling off the shell. Sweey chili sauce with basil enhances the favor into another level.

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Steamed Cat Fish with Black Bean Garlic Sauce 豉汁蒸鯰魚. Cat fish is very common in the US. Try to cook it in Chinese way instead of grilling, frying or baking. Really "East meets West".

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Fried Stuffed Tofu Cubes with Shrimp Paste 炸百花金花. Turned over the bean curd cubes and stuffed them with shrimp paste and other ingredients did taste good and look attractive.

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This is Hot and Spicy Shrimps 香辣蝦. My delicious home made hot sauce with ketchup will make you suck not only the shrimp but your fingers too.

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Honey Black Sesame Salmon 蜜糖黑椒三文粒. Cover thge pan fried salmon cubes with honey black sesame soy sauce tastes so great.

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Salmon Veggi Basket 三文盞. Stir-fried mixed vegetables and salmon cubes with honey soy sauce and decorated with a baked basket. It is great to serve as party snacks.

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Steamed Shrimp Paste with Hairy Melon in Egg White 百花節瓜拌玉液. It is a light favor healthy seafood dish. The fresh green hairy melon, hand made mashed lumpy shrimp and chicken soup based egg white just blended the favor together. In addition, the touch up with a few wolfberries on top not only added the color but also a bit sweet taste and a great sense of healthy concern.
 

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Mussels with Garlic Black Bean Sauce 黑椒青口 is not just colorful but also have strong fermented black bean favor. This tasteful dish surely will enhance your appetite.

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Steamed Tilapia with Mui Choy 甜梅菜蒸魚. Fresh Tilapia is very easy to find. Steamed with tangerine peels, mui choy and ginger enhance the fish flavor.

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Five Spice Salmon Fillet 五香薰三文魚塊. Soak the salmon fillet in the special made five spicy soy sauce after pan-fried the fish, the fish is not just rich in its own fatty taste but also full of exotic fragance.

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Baked Chu Hou Salmon 焗柱候三文柳. Marinate salmon fillet with chu hou sauce and brown sugar and so other simple ingredients do create a yummy fish dish.

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This simple but healthy Stir-fried Shrimps with Spinach 蝦仁炒菠菜 is suitable for beginners and "20 minute" cooking people.

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Stir-fried Oyster on Hot Grill Pan 鉄板羌葱大蠔. Oysters are still juicy but not over cooked. Served in hot grill pan is just right in winter time.

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Pan fried Basil Corn Shrimp Cakes 煎泰式粟米蝦餅. Serving this exotic basil corn shrimp cakes with Thai sweet chili sauce in the party does make every guess happy.

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I am a seafood fan. However, fresh seafood is not come in handy especially when we are stationed oversea and rely on Comissary. How can we cook frozen seafood like the fresh one? It is not hard to do instead. Home made gingerwine is the magic to solve this problem.