Steamed fish is the first dish I learned how to cook. My mother showed me how to season the fish, determine how long to steam it and how to sizzle the aromatics with hot oil. Steamed fish is a ...

and steam as instructed. Sprinkle with spring onion then serve. For salted fish pork patty, make the dish as above, but leave out the chun pei, ginger, dried cuttlefish and fresh squid.

The Mandarin word for ‘fish’ (Yu) is a homonym for ‘abundance’ (Yu), so a whole fish is usually served to symbolise unity and ...