Yú xiānɡ ròu sī –鱼香肉丝 

 肉丝(ròu sī): sliced pork 

 

Yu-Shiang Shredded Pork (Chinese: yú xiānɡ ròu sī; 鱼香肉丝; also called fish flavored pork slices) is a common kind of Sichuan cuisine. Yú xiānɡ ròu sī is one of main traditional taste type in Sichuan. It is made of spice modulation and into.

It is named after the fish sweet flavor. Yú xiānɡ ròu sī with fish smell appears in recent decades. The creator is a chef from Sichuan in the early republic. Its “fish smell” is made of hot pepper, salt, soy sauce, white sugar, ginger, garlic and green star. This seasoning has nothing to do with Fish, instead imitating the seasoning and method, which used in Sichuan folk when they are cooking fish. That’s the name’s origin. This seasoning contains salty, sweet, sour, hot, fresh and so on, making the food more delicious.

Chengdu Tonglan (the book which give a brief introduction of Chengdu in Sichuan province) was published in 1909 and took down 1328 kinds of Sichuan food, however, it did not include the fish smell food, which stated that Yú xiānɡ ròu sī appeared after 1909.

        Chengdu Tonglan 

It is said that, many years ago, a family likes eating fish very much and they are particular with the seasoning. They always put some green onion, ginger, garlic, soy, vinegar, wine and so on when they cook Fish. One day, the wife put the remaining seasoning last night into the food because she dose not want to waste the seasoning. She at fist thought her husband would not like it, but of unexpected is, he likes it very much.

Later, this food is improved by many Sichuan people. And the fish smell food has enrolled in Sichuan Menu in the early, for example, fish sweet pork liver, Yú xiānɡ ròu sī, saute eggplant with fish flavor and fish sweet three silk. Mow, this food is uniqueflavor, popular with the people everywhere.

Its major ingredient is Pork. People select and use thirty percent fat and seventy percent thin pork, shredding and frying slippered, which can made the food more fresh and soft.

Explanation of Yú xiānɡ ròu sī:

鱼(yú): fish

香(xiānɡ): flavour, smell