Luscious Beef With Pickled Vegetables (酸汤肥牛)
Dinner @ '大蓉和' (www.daronghe.cn/), a modern Sichuanese restaurant chain with colleagues.
Beef with a 'healthy' content of fat is heavily favoured in China for broths and soups. They looked good floating in the soups but I usually find them too sinewy to bite through. I don't like to bite rubber bands.
The soup came with a 'healthy' layer of oil as well. My mate and myself just stared at the bowl. Southern style soups are prized for their clarity and cleanliness. To have soups served with a stratosphere of oil is just mind-boggling. And this is probably why pickled vegetables are used to pierce through the oiliness. The acidity adds flavours as well as much needed freshness. It's a good dish, flavour-wise.....but the oil was still plenty shocking.
Luscious Beef With Pickled Vegetables (酸汤肥牛)
Dinner @ '大蓉和' (www.daronghe.cn/), a modern Sichuanese restaurant chain with colleagues.
Beef with a 'healthy' content of fat is heavily favoured in China for broths and soups. They looked good floating in the soups but I usually find them too sinewy to bite through. I don't like to bite rubber bands.
The soup came with a 'healthy' layer of oil as well. My mate and myself just stared at the bowl. Southern style soups are prized for their clarity and cleanliness. To have soups served with a stratosphere of oil is just mind-boggling. And this is probably why pickled vegetables are used to pierce through the oiliness. The acidity adds flavours as well as much needed freshness. It's a good dish, flavour-wise.....but the oil was still plenty shocking.