Saturday, November 29, 2008

Shark Jelly at Teochew Cuisine Restaurant

Teochew Shark Jelly

Here's something I'd never tried before: a cold platter of shark jelly from the Teochew Cuisine Restaurant. As best as I could make out, this was basically bits of shark meat sitting in a mildly sweet gelatin. It sounded and looked weird, but I didn't mind it that much. In fact, this platter also came with slices of some kind of pork jelly too, which was kinda like headcheese except you got a vinegary ginger dip to go with it. Is this kind of stuff common in Teochew cuisine?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

yes, this is common in teochew cuisine. and cold crabs too

In-Jaul said...

I think it's common in teochew cuisine, but I also have also seen similar dishes in many places in Beijing.

Anonymous said...

Grew up eating these cold savoury "jelly" as my father is a teochew cook and had a stall selling teochew porridge/rice with cooked dishes.

ClearTear said...

yes its common teochew dish, this jelly thing usually 2 version: 1) Pork jelly (the soup become gelatin llike due to the collagen of the pork skin) 2) Shark jelly (the soup become gelatin due to collagen from shark skin and bone marrow i think)