Fish maw and fish foam not much of a difference, these two are the same thing, just different areas of different names.
Fish maw and fish bubble in addition to different names, in other places there is no obvious difference, because they are simply the same thing are stopped in the belly of the swim bladder, just in different areas, people call it different. Fish bladder after collecting in addition to call fish maw or fish bubbles, but also can do fish maw or fish glue, regardless of which name is the same ingredient.
The way to choose fish maw:
One, look at the shape and color?
1, choose the fish maw when you can see if it is the shape of the complete, and then whether the meat is translucent, a good fish maw is golden yellow, and then looks very translucent, there is a certain texture. If it looks like the color wax yellow or even a little black that is not good fish belly, can not put too long will grow mold.
2, fish maw is extracted from the fish, so there will inevitably be a small amount of blood, but if there is a lot of blood on the do not buy, it will affect its flavor.
3, you can judge the quality of fish maw by looking at the color of the fish maw, generally the deeper the color of the fish maw the better. Not only taste beautiful, and nutritional value is also higher.
Two, smell?
Extraction of fish belly fish generally live in the sea, so smell will have a faint seafood flavor, if it smells fishy and stinky, then you can judge these fish belly is not fresh.
Three, taste flavor?
Fish belly bought back to stew when you can observe, the soup looks relatively clear, not turbid, very refreshing, no heavy fishy flavor, and basic stew does not rot, eat up a little sticky, so the fish belly is belong to the more high-quality, if we find that the fish belly after cooking appeared heavy fishy flavor, but also particularly easy to stew, then it is shown that such a fish belly is relatively poor quality.
This is a very good quality fish maw.