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Description
A whole fish steamed with ginger and spring onion, then finished at the table with a pour of hot soy sauce followed by smoking-hot oil — the oil and soy combining on the fish's surface in a aromatic sizzle that serves as both flavour addition and aromatic spectacle. Qing zheng yu is the most fundamental Cantonese preparation and the clearest demonstration of the Cantonese principle of ingredient quality as primary preparation: a correctly steamed whole fresh fish needs nothing beyond the soy sauce and a few aromatics to be exceptional.
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The Thread
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Flavour Context
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