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      Title: Mock Fish (Buddhist)
 Categories: Chinese, Vegetarian, Ceideburg 2
      Yield: 1 batch
 
      1 lg Potato, cooked, peeled and
           -slice 1/4 inch thick
      2 tb Flour
           Peanut oil for frying
      1 sm Onion, sliced
    1/2 lb Snow peas
     10    Wood ears, soaked to
           -soften, tough ends
           -removed, cut in slivers
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Sugar
    1/3 c  Water
 
  Here's one for mock fish, using potatoes to replace the finny
  critter, that sounds like a pretty tasty vegetarian dish regardless
  of how much the potato resembles a fish. Sprinkle potatoes with flour
  and deep-fry until golden.  Drain and set aside. Pour off all but 2
  tablespoons of the oil, reheat an add onion. Stir-fry for 10 seconds
  and add snow peas and wood ears.  Stir- fry for another 10 seconds
  and add salt, sugar and water. Bring to rapid boil, stirring
  constantly, and cook until peas are just tender crisp. Add reserved
  fried potato slices, heat through and serve. Wood ears are a type of
  mushroom or shelf fungus.  When soaked it has a crunchy, gelatinous
  texture with little taste.  If you can't find them, I imagine that
  you could use the dried mushrooms although they wouldn't give exactly
  the same effect.  A closer substitute would be dried jellyfish, but
  if you're somewhere that sells dried jellyfish, I'm sure that they
  have wood ears as well.
  
  From "The Regional Cooking of China" by Margaret Gin and Alfred E.
  Castle. 101 Productions, San Francisco, 1975.
  
  Posted by Stephen Ceideburg; December 20 1990.
 
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