Does anyone know what this Chinese food is, and does anyone have this recipe?!


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Does anyone know what this Chinese food is, and does anyone have this recipe?

When I went to china town I had this great tasting dish. It had the rubbery feeling of squid, but it was a lot thicker,
It may have been cuttle fish. It was a orange color, and it came out of a chinese box. This seafood was cut into strips and marinated in this great tasting brown/ orange colored sauce. I would like to know what it is I ate, and If anyone knows how to prepare this dish. Thanks!

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2 weeks ago
I can't remeber what the name of the dish was because I had it several years ago. Anyways, Its kinda like just thick several long pieces of squid covered in some orange brown sauce.

2 weeks ago
does anyone know how its cooked, or what kind of sauce its in when they serve it in the streets, or those old marts?

2 weeks ago
Or the name of this dish?


Answers:
2 weeks ago
I can't remeber what the name of the dish was because I had it several years ago. Anyways, Its kinda like just thick several long pieces of squid covered in some orange brown sauce.

2 weeks ago
does anyone know how its cooked, or what kind of sauce its in when they serve it in the streets, or those old marts?

2 weeks ago
Or the name of this dish?

It is cuttlefish. Mostly would serve with roast pork (Char Siu) in Cantonese Restaurants or Chiu Chow Restaurants, below is a photo of some hanging there.

In Cantonese, we call it "Lou sui mug yu" (mug = ink, yu = fish), "lou sui" is the sauce (with seasoning) to boil the cuttlefish. (I guess they put food colouring in the lou sui to make them turn orange in colour), it is a very common cheap store-bought food, so I have never thought of preparing it at home. I will try to find the recipe.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephania/1...

You should be able to remember what is the name when you ordered that great tasting dish.

I don't know what is it called since there are lots of similar dishes in Chinese cooking like you are saying.

I don't know to be 100% sure, I mean from what you are discribing it may of been chow meing with eel, if you are sure it was with fish. That's about the closest I can guess.

Cuttle fish is very popular in China so it may have been.

Try and find this food again and while there ask questions.

It is cuttlefish.

i am thinking that you had abalone. it usually is served with strips of jellyfish, too.




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