Deep-fried sweet and sour fish—no, this isn’t something out of Panda Express. It’s been a staple of Chinese cuisine for over 200 years.
In eastern China, “squirrel fish” is a delicacy—and it’s called that because the fish is trimmed into the shape of a squirrel.
It’s a deep-fried perch, dressed in a tomato-based sauce and garnished with pine nuts and sweet river shrimp. We learned how to make it at Songhelou, a restaurant in Suzhou that makes over 300,000 plates of the fish every year.
This is the 10th episode of our 13-part series on Chinese food called Eat China. In the next episode, we’re going to explore the food of northern China.
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