Shark's fin is one of the traditional Chinese valuable food, and with bird's nest, sea cucumber and abalone is known as China's four "delicious". Generally speaking, the real shark's fin is white before soaking, and when cooked, it becomes crystal clear and translucent or close to translucent, and the form is very full. If the color of the fake shark's fin is golden yellow, even if it is cooked after soaking, it will still be light yellow or yellowish brown. But the method of soaking shark's fin is a big problem.
The correct way to soak shark's fin is to soak the shark's fin in water for about five hours, boil a pot of boiling water with a rice cooker, put the shark's fin with a lemon or an orange into the rice cooker with the cooker, twenty minutes after the opening of the heat preservation system, so that the shark's fin is in the rice cooker for about three hours, and then change the water to soak for two hours, the shark's fin will be hairy. If the shark's fin is fine, water soaking time can be shortened to half an hour accordingly.