CNY auspicious dish : waterless steam fish

I still remember when I was a kid my dad, which is a very good cook will always prepare steam fish for the 2nd day of CNY and also known as "Hoi Nin" 開年.  My dad said the reason of having Fish is because "Nian Nian You Yu" is a greeting Words for chinese new year, Meaning abundant Year By Year, which always means "Money"." Fish" and "abundant" have the same pronunciation "Yu", but in different character~ therefore, chinese always using fish to represent abundant.

And this year, I will follow my dad's foot step and carry on with this tradition. 

Waterless Steam Fish

1.Tiger Grouper 龙虎班 approximately 1.2kg

(clean and scaled, dry with paper towel, marinate with Sea Salt and Rice Wine)

2. Egg Toufu, Spring Onion, Ginger and Corriander.

Method:

1. Using 27cm OFO, place spring onion, ginger slice and tofu, Pour 1/2 cup water at the bottom of OFO. 

2. Lastly place fish on top of all ingredients. 

3. Turn on High fire, when water started to get warm and once you see the steam, cover the lid and turn down to medium flame and cook for 10minutes and keep lid close for 2minutes (if your fish is smaller than 1kg, you may reduce cooking time to 8min)

4. Boil cooking oil pour over fish then followed by gravy (soya sauce x 2tbsp, fish sauce x 2tbsp, sugar) and spring onion and corriander.

5. Serve with white rice will be perfect.