Lettuce Wrapped Oysters With Black Mushrooms and Sea Moss

Photo: Zomppa

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

Soak fat choy, vermicelli, and mushrooms

Take large lettuce leaves (whole) in hot water. Blanch and remove

Heat wok with oil and sautee oysters

Add mushrooms, fat choy, vermicelli, chicken stock, and oyster sauce

Season with sesame oil, salt, and sugar

Mis cornstarch with water and add slowly to thicken

Place two mushrooms and two oysters with rest in each lettuce leaf

Wrap

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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/