Scaleless Aquatic Creatures 22: Cockles(蚶)

Cockles can be prepared in three ways. Splash with boiling water and when they are half done1 and remove one shell and marinade them in wine and autumn sauce until they are “drunk”. Or they can be cooked in chicken broth by remove one shell and putting them into the broth. Finally, they can also …

Seafoods 9: Oysters (蠣黃)

海鮮單::蠣黃 蠣黃生石子上。殼與石子膠粘不分。剝肉作羹，與蚶、蛤相似。一名鬼眼。樂清、奉化兩縣土產，別地所無。 List of Seafoods::Oysters Oysters grow with their shells stuck fast to rocks, making them particularly difficult to dislodge. After being shucked, they can be cooked as a thick soup [1] in the same manner of cockles and clams. Known also as "ghost eyes"[2], oysters can only be found in the two prefectures of …

Seafoods 8: Scallops (江瑤柱)

海鮮單::江瑤柱 江瑤柱出寧波，治法與蚶、蟶同。其鮮脆在柱，故剖殼時多棄少取。 List of Seafoods::Scallop Scallops[1] come from Ningbo and should be prepared in the same manner as cockles [2] and razor clams [3]. The most delicious and crisp portion of the scallop is the central "pillar". Thus when shucking scallop, one will be throwing away most of it and keeping only this small portion. …