How to make Cake soup with chives? Do you like the small spring onion and chives? How will you react when entering a street restaurant and they give you a dish with literally all green onions? Whatever your answer is, this dish will raise a little argument between those who love and those who hate small spring onion.
Although Cake soup with chives is a favorite of many connoisseurs, it makes a lot of others want to…run away. The most prominent feature of the food is the green color of onions and chives covering its surface. At first, you will probably feel like you are about to eat a bowl of chives.
However, when you try it, you will see why so many people, especially citizens of Ho Chi Minh City. The cake of the dish is made from rice flour and cut into smaller pieces than normal ones. Also, it has its own flexibility, which is enough to be unbroken while being cooked.
The primary ingredient of the dish is fried fish. It is made from sea fishes in Phu Yen sea-area, such as lizardfishes, barracudas, and sailfishes. When the dish is adapted to many regions in the country, they change the type of fish but still sea fishes. Fried fish is ground and added unique spices. Then, it is shaped into many pieces and fried or steamed.
Different from other dishes, the broth of the food is not made by bones. It is made from fresh fishes to create fishy natural sweetness as well as avoid greasiness. The dish is the best when it comes with some lemon juice, ground chili pepper, and fish sauce.
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