Lettuce Wrapped Oysters With Black Mushrooms and Sea Moss
By: Zomppa
Published: Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 7:02pm

Ingredients




8 oysters
8 black mushrooms
1/2 pound sea moss (fat choy)
1 small package rice vermicelli (little ones)
3 tablespoons oyster sauce
 cup chicken stock
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon water

Preparation

1 Soak fat choy, vermicelli, and mushrooms 2 Take large lettuce leaves (whole) in hot water. Blanch and remove 3 Heat wok with oil and sautee oysters 4 Add mushrooms, fat choy, vermicelli, chicken stock, and oyster sauce 5 Season with sesame oil, salt, and sugar 6 Mis cornstarch with water and add slowly to thicken 7 Place two mushrooms and two oysters with rest in each lettuce leaf 8 Wrap

About


This is a dish my dad would make and I never really liked it as a kid. My version was slightly tastier (aka sweeter – sorry, dad!) but still not my favorite, which meant I was able to more or less replicate his original. Oysters and mushrooms we’ve talked about and lettuce sounds like bring about good wealth. Sea moss is also ‘fat choy,’ which looks like a bunch of hair, but sounds like congratulations, be prosperous, fortune. It sounds like the Fat Choy in the greeting Gung Hay Fat Choy which is commonly said during new year, meaning May You Come Into Good Fortune. I thought it’d be pretty and yummy to wrap them in lettuce, and it turns out that food rolled into lettuce means having a child soon (er….) http://www.zomppa.com/2010/02/14/year-4708-gung-hay-fat-choy/