dried scallops

[His Nibs]

You can also use it to make soup. Kinda expensive but hey! You pay for the good stuff.

Soak the scallops over night, get some lean pork and winter melon (about 1/2 a melon ~3-4 pounds). Put all the ingredients in a big stock pot and bring it to a boil. Then simmer it for like 3 hours. It works best if you have a charcoal stove

[Singapore]

Try scrambled eggs with reconstituted dried scallops. Trickle a bit of basalmic vinegar or soy sauce over the top, along with chopped green onions and serve over rice.

[aprilmei]

There's a really good banquet dish that's VERY luxurious called, poetically, "jade bracelets". I've never made it but I don't think it would be very difficult - just expensive. Take sze gwah (fuzzy melon), peel off the fuzz, slice it into rings and then remove the seeds (that's the jade bracelet part - the rings have to be intact). You need large (ie, expensive) whole dried scallops that completely fill the hole in the middle of the jade bracelet where the seeds were. I assume that they soak the scallops first. Steam the jade bracelets until the scallops are tender.

Cook bean sprouts with sliced, dried Chinese mushrooms and whole garlic cloves that have been deep-fried. Season with the usual seasonings of soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, white pepper etc, and probably some supreme chicken stock to make a thin sauce. Put the bean sprouts etc on the bottom of a steamer dish, arrange the jade bracelets on top, spoon some of the sauce (from the bean sprouts) over the top of the jade bracelets and steam again to heat things through. The bean sprouts will be very tender - not al dente, and the garlic cloves should be very soft and melting. It's fabulous.