In Taiwan's night markets, the products sold are not the same as the famous products, but there is a delicacy is "oyster frying", night markets around the world must be seen everywhere, "oyster frying" has become a very famous national cuisine in Taiwan, foreign tourists for "oyster frying" is also a delicacy that will not be missed. In general, many oyster fried stalls will also sell "crab meat frying", "flower branch frying", "shrimp frying", "egg frying", etc., as the name suggests, that is, to replace oysters with seafood such as flower branches, shrimp and crabs, or only a combination of eggs, greens and starchy water. Oyster frying due to the fire, the merchant simply similar to the use of gasoline barrel transformation as a pot body, so that the area of the pot surface is very large, a pot fried down almost 8 to 10 people, so there is no full 8 people can only queue, very interesting way to sell. Therefore, most of the more famous oyster fried shops are in line.
The origin of oyster frying is widely disputed, but the most famous legend is that when Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan, the Dutch hid all the rice grain near Tainan to avoid funding Zheng Chenggong. In order to save white rice, Zheng Jun used the oysters found on the beach at that time to wrap and fry with sweet potato flour, which evolved into "oyster frying" Kinmen oyster frying still retains the practice of mixing sweet potato flour at the beginning, and the difference with Taiwanese oyster frying is that the tabletop oyster fry is drizzled with too white powder after the end.
In Guangdong, oyster frying only uses duck eggs, edible starch and oyster frying, Hong Kong oyster frying pays more attention to the degree of loosening and crispness, in addition to the use of duck eggs and flour, the cooking method is changed to fried, which is more similar to Taiwan's oyster eating method. However, oyster fried in both places is often served with fish sauce, pepper and watercress sauce.
practice:
The method is to first use a pan to heat the oil, put on the oysters, stirred eggs, vegetables (such as artemisia annua, spinach, Taiwan lettuce, cabbage, hollow cabbage, bean sprouts, nine-layer tower, etc.) and then drizzled with edible starch mustard water, when the oysters are cooked, drizzled with special sauces can be eaten, easy to make, delicious taste, of which the types of edible starch (common potatoes, potatoes and tree potatoes) and the viscosity of the mustard water, the coke of the decoction, the coke of the decoction, each place is also different. In particular, sauce recipes, from the simplest soy sauce paste, ketchup, sweet and spicy sauce to bean paste, many stores will mix various sauces to become unique recipes.