For many years, I have been seeing the canned fried dace fish with oily and salty black beans (豆豉鲮鱼) in Chinese grocery stores, but never knew how to eat them. At last, you enlightened me and I made this dish today. So quick to make and tasted really good!
I am a diabetic and bitter melon help me low my blood sugar. I cleaned it and cut to 2 inches take out the seeds with some white part and I boiled in water , and I eat it and drink the juice. No more med .😀😀😀😀😀😀
I remember when we were just kids my parents used to just wash and slice bittermelons soak in salt, wash and eat as a salad😂 though we kids didn't eat them, we know they made my parents' lives longer 😍 bittermelon remains one of my favourites to this day.
Thank you for sharing !!) I litterally JUSST dumped out the boil water 😮😢.. im having Bitter Mellon and beef and eggs and Tomatoes... first time tring.. we love bitter mellon.. I wish I had known soon about drinking the water. Will try this next time tho. 😊❤ thanks again
I hated fu-gua growing up until I had it in a restaurant where it was stuffed with conpoy, steamed and sauced with a clear savory sauce. So delicious! Now I love it especially in Indian cooking.
Yes would love to see more recipes with the canned fish! Growing up my mom always made it with just fermented black beans but I’m sure the fish amplifies the flavour 👍
Always get so hungry when I watch your videos. I loved the bitterness of bittermelon since childhood and anytime I come across another recipe I have to make it. Thanks for another yummy dish!
I love your channel your recipes are so easy to follow. I can’t wait to try. Please use the caned fish WTH the black beans in other recipes! Thank you. 😄
"Fried Dace" was such a go to food when I was a College student. We'd always buy a few cans at the start of the semester and towards the end when money was tight, this fish plus a bowl or two of white rice would hit the exact right spot. This can of fish by the way will last for a while. Since it's packed with flavor, you only need a little bit to top the rice with and you'd be all set. If we were super tight with cash, we'd make congee which is if i remember correctly like an 8 or 10 to 1 ratio of water to rice and top it with the fried dace. Brings back good memories
I've eaten bitter melon & loved it, but never cooked it. I recently decided I must make it myself, and your channel is the first place I went. That's how much I respect your knowledge, skill and authenticity. Thank you Mandy, you are a treasure! Luckily I have wonderful Vietnamese groceries locally.
That’s a new recipe for me! Thank you so much for sharing! I plan on introducing my 20 month-old toddler soon to bitter melon! We mainly either stuff it and cook in a broth or stir fry it with eggs. This recipe looks so delicious! I’ll make it for my husband and toddler, and just drool while watching them eat since I can’t eat fish.
Yes please more recipes with canned fish. I discovered it a couple years ago and always keep a few cans on hand for a quick meal over rice but I would love to see how it’s supposed to be done
I am going to have to try this recipe! I LOVE the fried fish in black bean and always buy it when I go to the Asian store. I've tried bitter melon and would like another way to cook it. This looks delicious.
I accidentally bought the dace with fermented vegetables and made it using this recipe. Afterwards I tried it with the black beans and I think it was much better with the fermented vegetables. I suggest you try it! Thanks for the recipe!
I love the canned fried dace with black beans, and also grew up eating it. Never thought about cooking and adding other things to eat. Would love to see more recipes with it.
Canned Dace has a long cultural history in the US as well; its equal parts sad and beautiful. (It was one of few canned foods that were successfully brought to the US with Chinese immigrants I believe as far back as the 1920s. It was a taste of home for so many and its a cultural focal point for innumerable people - eaten on its own, cooked with vegetables, served over hot rice. It's such a humble kitchen staple but like potatoes for the irish people, it was a lifeline for the times and it persists into the modern palette)
My first exposure to bitter melon was in a homemade Vietnamese soup. I thought something in the spoon was trying to bite my tongue off! That was almost 50 years ago. This recipe makes me wanna try again.
Hi Wendy. I just watched your vlog tonight. I love bitter mellon. I tried to copy for cooking but instead of the canned fish which you used, I used salted dried fish. I soaked the dried fish in water for 30 minutes to remove any chemicals & saltiness. I used the Garlic Black Beans Sauce to compliment with the dried fish & bitter mellon. The outcome of the dish was superb. I was able to buy that canned fish you used for cookig this dish at our Local Asian Grocer (Ranch 99) here in Fremont, Ca. Did not realized that there are many kinds of these canned fish & I do not read Chinese.
I really enjoyed your videos on fried dace with salted black beans. Could you give us a recipie on the same with long beans or french beans? Other recipies I am looking forward to is Fried Dace with Preserved Vegetable. Many thanks.
Was happy and pleasantly surprised when I saw this video as I only had this fish last week. I just steam it and have it with white rice. That's the only way my mum has done it so that's the only way I know. I never thought of cooking it with other ingredients so would be interested to know what other recipes I can do with it 😊
I happen to have a can of the fish in my cupboard as we speak. My Chinese roommate back in college introduced me to this canned fish while we wandered around Chinatown (NYC). Yes, more recipes with it!
I'm an ABC but I love bitter melon. I guess I am unusual in being born in the States but I love almost all the traditional Cantonese ingredients. Give me all the salted fish, salted duck, bitter melon, century eggs, pig feet and red fermented bean curd!!
LOL … I didn’t like bitter melon as a child , then as adult I tried it again and love it . Reading your comments brought back many of the good days when I ate meals with my grandparents …All the salted stuff and everything you mentioned here . My kids are so North American and won’t try these Unami dishes . I grew up in the western world but I had the privilege to live with 3 generations in one house so I learnt some of the Chinese traditional meals . I missed my salted fish and rice ! My grandma would salt her own fish and hung it up for days …it was very fishy BUT SOOOO DELICIOUS! Nostalgia moments 😊 . Thanks for reminding me of the good old days !!!
Yes, please use the fish for other recipes please Mandy! It is very easy to open a can and be able to cook with it straight away vs fresh meats which require preparation.
Hi, Mandy! I've been curious about bitter melon for years but I've also been afraid of it for just as long. Now you've shown me a way I think I will actually try. We grow bitter melon at the community garden where I volunteer. A Korean man I know there loves that he can get fresh melon there. I asked him about how he likes it. He grinned and said, "It's an acquired taste!" 😅 PS I'm gonna get canned fried dace with black beans at our huge international market here in Nashville, Tennessee!
Please. More bitter mellon recipies and these canned fish recipies also.. ive had these before but didnt know how to eat them in a dish. ❤ Thank you for sharing
Yes Mandy bring it on, we need more recipes using the canned fish. Now at least i know one way because eating it straight from the can can be quite salty. Thanks for sharing 😍
I got hooked on it in dumplings. I didn’t like them at first but then somehow ended up craving them later on😅. Then I ordered it stir-fried with eggs and that’s really good, too.
Thank you so much for this recipe, Mandy. Other than having this fried dace with plain porridge, I never know how else to serve it. So some more recipes using this fish would be appreciated. And if you have more recipes using bitter melon, that would be such a treat too.❤
Count me in for more canned fried dace in black bean recipes. I've been wondering why I see it all over the world in chinese grocery stores. I enjoy good quality canned fish.
I would love to see more videos of different recipes with the canned black bean. I grew up eating it by itself over rice. I didn't know you could add other ingredients to
Lol, the bitter this bitter melon the more I love it. No matter how you cook it I love it. Unfortunately where I live in the southern TN no Asian grocery around. So I have to plant it by myself.
❤❤ I hear this is really good for diabetes do you have any more recipes I plan to buy lots of bitter melon and could I boil a little bit and freeze for later use and if possible could I add to a smoothie
Yes, more recipes with the canned fish please!
Definitely. I know the better melon is the star of this recipe, but that fish looks really good!
Love to see more recipes w black beans and fish. One of our favorite dishes
My parents are first Gen Italian. We love canned fish items! I grew up eating oil packed anchovies on greens all the time!
Sardines on toast
I actually just bought 2 cans of this fish in black beans. I’d love a few recipes using this fish. Thank you
For many years, I have been seeing the canned fried dace fish with oily and salty black beans (豆豉鲮鱼) in Chinese grocery stores, but never knew how to eat them. At last, you enlightened me and I made this dish today. So quick to make and tasted really good!
I am a diabetic and bitter melon help me low my blood sugar. I cleaned it and cut to 2 inches take out the seeds with some white part and I boiled in water , and I eat it and drink the juice. No more med .😀😀😀😀😀😀
I remember when we were just kids my parents used to just wash and slice bittermelons soak in salt, wash and eat as a salad😂 though we kids didn't eat them, we know they made my parents' lives longer 😍 bittermelon remains one of my favourites to this day.
Thank you for sharing !!) I litterally JUSST dumped out the boil water 😮😢.. im having Bitter Mellon and beef and eggs and Tomatoes... first time tring.. we love bitter mellon.. I wish I had known soon about drinking the water. Will try this next time tho. 😊❤ thanks again
@jayoppie3021 .. ohhh. And what else was in the Salad your parents ate please... I would love to know.
I grew up enjoying 豆豉鲮鱼 and still love that to this very day. I would love to watch more of your wonderful recipes with 豆豉鲮鱼.
Your recipe was delicious --thanks for sharing!
I hated fu-gua growing up until I had it in a restaurant where it was stuffed with conpoy, steamed and sauced with a clear savory sauce. So delicious! Now I love it especially in Indian cooking.
Yes more recipes! I like that you use lots of vegetables and spice!
Yes would love to see more recipes with the canned fish!
Growing up my mom always made it with just fermented black beans but I’m sure the fish amplifies the flavour 👍
You can skip the canned fish but use fermented black beans with some fresh fish slices, in oyster sauce. Works just as well.
This looks so good! I love bitter melon. Please do more recipes with black bean fish also!! 😊
looks sooo good, thank you 😇
Im interested in the canned fish. I brought a can once and had some with rice. It was ok so would appreciate a few recipies for this.
Always get so hungry when I watch your videos. I loved the bitterness of bittermelon since childhood and anytime I come across another recipe I have to make it. Thanks for another yummy dish!
I found that exact can and made the dish, ( I'm already a big bitter melon fan ) the fish really surprised me, I absolutely loved it
I absolutely love your channel! I enjoy making your recipes.
Thank you so much for this recipe! We always ate the fish alone. Now I know we can combine the two!
I love your channel your recipes are so easy to follow. I can’t wait to try. Please use the caned fish WTH the black beans in other recipes! Thank you. 😄
"Fried Dace" was such a go to food when I was a College student. We'd always buy a few cans at the start of the semester and towards the end when money was tight, this fish plus a bowl or two of white rice would hit the exact right spot. This can of fish by the way will last for a while. Since it's packed with flavor, you only need a little bit to top the rice with and you'd be all set. If we were super tight with cash, we'd make congee which is if i remember correctly like an 8 or 10 to 1 ratio of water to rice and top it with the fried dace. Brings back good memories
I've eaten bitter melon & loved it, but never cooked it. I recently decided I must make it myself, and your channel is the first place I went. That's how much I respect your knowledge, skill and authenticity. Thank you Mandy, you are a treasure! Luckily I have wonderful Vietnamese groceries locally.
I would love to see more of your bittermelon recipes. Thank you Mandy!
More recipes with the canned fried dace please. I love that stuff. Thank you .
That’s a new recipe for me! Thank you so much for sharing! I plan on introducing my 20 month-old toddler soon to bitter melon! We mainly either stuff it and cook in a broth or stir fry it with eggs. This recipe looks so delicious! I’ll make it for my husband and toddler, and just drool while watching them eat since I can’t eat fish.
I love your fish and bitter melon recipe. Please do more recipes using each one.
Grew up hating it of course, gave it some chance at about 25. Im 30 now and I can’t help but drool at every bitter melon dish i see. 🤤
Yes please more recipes with canned fish. I discovered it a couple years ago and always keep a few cans on hand for a quick meal over rice but I would love to see how it’s supposed to be done
I have been learning how to like and appreciate bitter melon. This is a good recipe to try
Omg, I am hooked on fried dace with black beans. Please make more recipes with this fish. I just eat it over white rice now with some steamed greens.
You make bitter melon look so good!
I am going to have to try this recipe! I LOVE the fried fish in black bean and always buy it when I go to the Asian store. I've tried bitter melon and would like another way to cook it. This looks delicious.
👍👍👍👍👍👍Great presentation Mandy. Thank you for all of your great ideas. ....Michigan
I accidentally bought the dace with fermented vegetables and made it using this recipe. Afterwards I tried it with the black beans and I think it was much better with the fermented vegetables. I suggest you try it! Thanks for the recipe!
I like when you talk about recipes your mom fed you as a kid 😊
I love the canned fried dace with black beans, and also grew up eating it. Never thought about cooking and adding other things to eat. Would love to see more recipes with it.
Canned Dace has a long cultural history in the US as well; its equal parts sad and beautiful.
(It was one of few canned foods that were successfully brought to the US with Chinese immigrants I believe as far back as the 1920s. It was a taste of home for so many and its a cultural focal point for innumerable people - eaten on its own, cooked with vegetables, served over hot rice. It's such a humble kitchen staple but like potatoes for the irish people, it was a lifeline for the times and it persists into the modern palette)
My first exposure to bitter melon was in a homemade Vietnamese soup. I thought something in the spoon was trying to bite my tongue off! That was almost 50 years ago. This recipe makes me wanna try again.
Hi Wendy. I just watched your vlog tonight. I love bitter mellon. I tried to copy for cooking but instead of the canned fish which you used, I used salted dried fish. I soaked the dried fish in water for 30 minutes to remove any chemicals & saltiness. I used the Garlic Black Beans Sauce to compliment with the dried fish & bitter mellon. The outcome of the dish was superb.
I was able to buy that canned fish you used for cookig this dish at our Local Asian Grocer (Ranch 99) here in Fremont, Ca. Did not realized that there are many kinds of these canned fish & I do not read Chinese.
The dish looks ez to make, and so delicious! Thank you dear.
I am always looking for recipies using fried dace and black beans. Please more recipies!❤
I've always been curious about Bitter melon, I think this recipe is simple enough for me to try.
Oh yes please do more videos with recipes using canned fish! Thank you so much!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I really enjoyed your videos on fried dace with salted black beans. Could you give us a recipie on the same with long beans or french beans? Other recipies I am looking forward to is Fried Dace with Preserved Vegetable. Many thanks.
More recipes with Fried Dace please! As usual, thank you for your great recipes!
I would love to see more recipes with tinned fish. Didn't know there was a Chinese version...I'll look for it in my next trip to the Asian market
The Dace reminds me of my grandfather, who loved it.
My mom makes it from time to time. I love bitter melon and this specific kind of 豆豉鲮魚 brand, too!
Was happy and pleasantly surprised when I saw this video as I only had this fish last week. I just steam it and have it with white rice. That's the only way my mum has done it so that's the only way I know. I never thought of cooking it with other ingredients so would be interested to know what other recipes I can do with it 😊
I happen to have a can of the fish in my cupboard as we speak. My Chinese roommate back in college introduced me to this canned fish while we wandered around Chinatown (NYC).
Yes, more recipes with it!
Yes - more recipes for that kind of canned fish! I see it in the store all the time....but I've never known what to do with it!
Yes, please, I would like to see more of the can of fried dace with fermented black beans.
Been eating that canned fish my entire life and never thought to use it as an ingredient for other dishes! Going to make this tomorrow!
Wow- so delicious and healthy !
Thank you for your recipe ! :)
I'm an ABC but I love bitter melon. I guess I am unusual in being born in the States but I love almost all the traditional Cantonese ingredients. Give me all the salted fish, salted duck, bitter melon, century eggs, pig feet and red fermented bean curd!!
LOL … I didn’t like bitter melon as a child , then as adult I tried it again and love it . Reading your comments brought back many of the good days when I ate meals with my grandparents …All the salted stuff and everything you mentioned here . My kids are so North American and won’t try these Unami dishes . I grew up in the western world but I had the privilege to live with 3 generations in one house so I learnt some of the Chinese traditional meals .
I missed my salted fish and rice ! My grandma would salt her own fish and hung it up for days …it was very fishy BUT SOOOO DELICIOUS!
Nostalgia moments 😊 .
Thanks for reminding me of the good old days !!!
Thanks for sharing! I will give this a try, hopefully my kids will like bitter melon after this!
Delicious and thank you for share this recipe, now I know the secret to remove out the bitter taste❤👍
I love the dish. Very simple recipe. I think should be delicious.
Yes, please use the fish for other recipes please Mandy!
It is very easy to open a can and be able to cook with it straight away vs fresh meats which require preparation.
Yes…more recipes using this canned fish. I love this canned fish.
I always ate the wokked bittermelon and canned black beans fish separate. Never had the idea to put together. I am curious now 🤤🤤
Hi, Mandy! I've been curious about bitter melon for years but I've also been afraid of it for just as long. Now you've shown me a way I think I will actually try. We grow bitter melon at the community garden where I volunteer. A Korean man I know there loves that he can get fresh melon there. I asked him about how he likes it. He grinned and said, "It's an acquired taste!" 😅
PS I'm gonna get canned fried dace with black beans at our huge international market here in Nashville, Tennessee!
If it’s super fresh, try steaming or blanching it and served with a soya sauce and sliced red chilli dip! Yum!
Yay a new bittermelon recipe 😊
Thanks Mandy for this innovative recipe. I love my bittermelon in the shrimp fried rice with a touch of shrimp paste...sooo good. 💜
Please. More bitter mellon recipies and these canned fish recipies also.. ive had these before but didnt know how to eat them in a dish. ❤ Thank you for sharing
Yes Mandy bring it on, we need more recipes using the canned fish. Now at least i know one way because eating it straight from the can can be quite salty. Thanks for sharing 😍
I got hooked on it in dumplings. I didn’t like them at first but then somehow ended up craving them later on😅. Then I ordered it stir-fried with eggs and that’s really good, too.
i love your videos , so informative!
Please consider posting more videos with that particular canned fish with fermented black beans ❤
i love seeing you eating! 😊
Thank you so much for this recipe, Mandy. Other than having this fried dace with plain porridge, I never know how else to serve it. So some more recipes using this fish would be appreciated.
And if you have more recipes using bitter melon, that would be such a treat too.❤
Yes, more recipe of this canned fish,please.
Looks yummy 😋
I like to eat bitter gourd 😍😍😍. Recipe that I will try later. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Always healthy.💝🥰
Yes please! I would love to see more canned fish recipes 😊
This looks good. And yes, more recipes with the canned fish, please 🙂
I just tried this recipe and it was amazing!
Yummy, thanks for the recipe!
Looks good. I would love to try cooking it. Thanks 😊
Count me in for more canned fried dace in black bean recipes. I've been wondering why I see it all over the world in chinese grocery stores. I enjoy good quality canned fish.
Bitter melon is always one of my favorite.
This actually looks really good, I also cant stand bitter melon to this day but that fish looks so deliciously chewy that I would eat that easily
I would like to see more recipes with this fish, thank you
Yes, want to see more recipe with the can fried fish,thanks
I would love to see more videos of different recipes with the canned black bean. I grew up eating it by itself over rice. I didn't know you could add other ingredients to
That’s how I eat mine, on white rice.
I made this dish and its was so good!
Looking delicious , will try to do. Thank you so much
One of my favourites.
Excellent recipe❤❤❤❤
Absolutely. I would love to see more recipes.
Yes would love to learn more new recipes with this canned fish…
Love this recipe and more like it.
Lol, the bitter this bitter melon the more I love it. No matter how you cook it I love it. Unfortunately where I live in the southern TN no Asian grocery around. So I have to plant it by myself.
Yes, more recipes using the canned fish. Thanks!
Looking delicious 👍
❤❤ I hear this is really good for diabetes do you have any more recipes I plan to buy lots of bitter melon and could I boil a little bit and freeze for later use and if possible could I add to a smoothie
Yes please more recipes thanks
Ah, canned Dace with black beans. Prominently featured on my provisions shelf. More Dace recipes please Mandy.
oh yes... please do have more recipes with this canned fish...
Looks so good
Yes more recipes with the can fish please 🙏
Yes please I would love to see more
Please mandy do more recipes with bitter melon. 🙏.
太棒了! 豆豉鲮鱼, 苦瓜我都很喜欢吃,请分享更多用豆豉鲮鱼的食谱!🤩