I first came across a dish similar to this at Restaurant City Star at Dataran Prima, and what initially caught my attention was the Chinese name of the dish “肥水ä¸æµåˆ«äººç”°”, which literally translate to “fertilized water doesn’t flow to other people’s farm“.  It was basically steamed prawns atop of “tongfun” soup.
raw seafood with herbal soup
A couple weeks ago, my ex-colleague Kelvin reminded me of this dish again when he tried it at a restaurant, and so I thought to myself, why not make it at home? It is after all just steamed seafood with herbal soup, can’t be difficult.
So I did, and here’s the recipe you can try out. Feel free to substitute the seafood to your choice, and for that matter, different soup will work too.
steam the seafood for 15 minutes, add green vegetables in the last 3 mins
Ingredients (seafood):
- 2 big prawns
- 2 medium size squid (clean properly)
- clams
- 1 crab (cut into halves)
Ingredients (soup):
- herbs (you can get them in packets)
- chicken carcass (or pork bones)
- mushroom & vegetable
and… enjoy your dinner – steamed seafood with herbal soup
Cooking instructions:
- boil the herbs and chicken carcass for at least half an hour to one hour
- place fresh seafood on top and use the same soup to steam it for 15 minutes
- add vegetable to soup and boil for another 2-3 minutes
- ready to eat!
Yeap, it’s that simple. What you’ll get is herbal soup that has enhanced seafood flavor, and steamed seafood that has a bit of herbal taste to it. I really liked the combination and will be looking to do more of this!
It’s the weekends, start cooking!
P/S: I didn’t clean one of the squid’s ink sacks properly hence the slightly darker shade of soup, but that didn’t stop me from eating everything! Also, thanks to Joyceanne for the giant prawns.
KY, the squid ink in soup is really not bad should add more to see it like Italian type cooking. Squid
ink in pasta or rice is very good .
Vickie: haha yah, but it didn’t go very well with herbal soup.
This is genius! Maybe I’ll try this type of cooking myself 😉
RealGunners: Do it!
Yum yum! bojio!! 😛
ciki: haha not enough prawns 😛
wow very atas! herbal soup with style!
Ken: haha thanks htanks.
You cook too! What a talent. 🙂
The Yum List: i try.. 😀
Herbal seafood soup. I think we have that at a shabu-shabu place here…but we had meat too. Very nice. Oooo…awesome prawns! Can’t go wrong with those!
suituapui: certainly can’t go wrong with those huge prawns.
I came across this dish at a restaurant at Bukit Tinggi 😛
Choi Yen: Small world!