Fish maw, also known as swim bladder, is a floating organ in the belly of the fish, by dissecting and drying into the sun. There are many varieties of fish maw, produced in China's South China Sea, there are wide maw, shark maw, sturgeon maw, Mao Chang maw, etc., of which wide maw quality is the best, with a large block, color and lustre bright for the best. Fish belly rise hair oil hair, water hair two kinds. Generally take oil hair, the steps are: ① first whole dry fish belly chopped into about 5 cm wide long strip.
② set the iron pot on medium heat, with tea oil (or lard) in the pot, the amount of oil depending on how much fish maw, in order to submerge to the extent that 500 grams of dry fish maw about 2,500 grams of tea oil, the oil temperature burned to four or five hot, into the dry fish maw, a little stirring, frying to all float up to the white foam, the temperature of the oil on the rise, that is, the oil pot end away from the fire mouth, a short break, the foam disappeared, and then on the fire to deep-fry, the hands of the spoon to turn, if the oil temperature is too high, the oil temperature is too high, the oil will rise. Turning, if the oil temperature is too high, but also away from the fire or spray water to reduce the oil temperature, so that the oil temperature is maintained at about 60%, in order to facilitate the frying of fish maw, the oil temperature is too high, it will produce the outside of the scorched inside impermeable, affecting the quality of hair growth, fried to the hand pinch on the break, the breakage of spongy on the success of the process takes about 20 to 30 minutes.
3 will be fried fish maw with warm water soak (if not urgent, you can use cold water soak) for about 20 minutes, you can cook according to the need to change the knife.
④ after the knife, loaded into the steam bowl, with cold water, flour, yellow vinegar, shaoxing wine scrub, the purpose is to remove the floating oil on the fish maw, so that its color is whiter, and then rinse with water two or three times can be.