This Chinese New Year I invied my aunt and cousin to my place for dinner. Chris and I went to Oakland China town for groceries. Gee~ it was crazy! After 2 hours of fighting our way through agressive, angry Chinese housewives - I got everything I need: a big live crab, fish, lotus root, vegetables, dried scallops, mushrroms, dried date, jinseng, chicken...etc. As Chris and I sat down at a restaurant trying to devour a bowl of noodle soup, our grocery bag moved. No kidding, the live crab in the bag slowly moved the bag towards the door. We could not stop laughing but meanwhile being a bit crept out about it. Well, so many animals died for me, for my aunt, and thousands of Chinese people during Chinese New Year. It is what it is. I can't think too much about it. So there, today, I present you "Crab steamed with rice wine & Sweet and Sour Fish" !!
Ingredients
1 live crab, 1 fish
Sweet & Sour sauce: 1/2 cup ketchup, 2 tb black vinegar, 2 tb brown sugar, arrowroot, 2 cloves of smashed garlic, sliced green onion, sliced ginger, 2 tb rice wine
crab steam sauce: 1 cup rice wine; 2tb soy sauce; 1 sliced ginger; sliced green onion, 1 clove of sliced garlic
The Making
Fish:
1. Heat up 2 tb vegetable oil in the pan, toss green onion and garlic in the pan, then add in ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, rice wine, and arrowroot to thicken the sauce (salt and pepper as needed). Put sauce aside.
2. Heat up 3 tb vegetable oil and then fry the fish, around 2-3 minutes each side.
3. Put the fish on the plate, and drizzle sauce over it. Put cilantrol as optional garnigh.
Crab:
1. Put rice wine, soy sauce, ginger, green onion and garlic in the pot to boil, and then put live crab in it, shut the lid tight.
2. When you're done steaming the crab, put everything on the plate. Add vinegar and soy sauce as needed.
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