Last year when hubby and I went to Hong Kong, after a few days we started to have this people phobic - too many people, too much traffic, and too much pollution. So we decided to go out on an outskirt adventure to Tai O. Tai O is kinda like a fishing village where there is minimal traffic... actually barely any traffic - more bike than car, and people are so simple and down-to-earth, lots of little grocery stores, and most importantly fresh air!!! After almost 2 hours of travel from the city centre, we finally arrived! Hubby and I not knowing our direction, so we simply just followed behing this group of people who seemed to know where they were going! We stood close by them and listened to their conversation as to where to go for lunch!!! haha.... we don’t usually do that!!! We ended up at this simple restaurant right by the water and there was this dish called ‘bamboo steamer rice’ which was awesome!!!! And I tired to replicate this dish a couple of times, but still haven’t been successful! Well... I guess if I can easily replicate the dish at home, there would be no such thing as restaurant and secret ingredients!
Anyway... here’s my version. It has rice... obviously!! And salty fish, pork neck, shrimp paste, silver fish, and the big dried shrimp!!! All wrapped with lotus leaf so it has that nice fragrance, then in it goes into the bamboo steamer for 20 minutes!
Mine didn’t taste too bad, the second time definitely improved! But this time round the shrimp paste was a bit too strong, and somehow the shrimp paste and salty fish here just doesn’t taste the same as the ones in Tai O. Does anyone have a suggestion of a good shrimp paste?? I guess I still need to work on the balance between the salty taste, the distinct taste of shrimp paste and the beautiful fragrant of lotus leaf!!
Ready for the third time trail!
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