Fried Oysters

Name: Fried Oysters
Yield: Makes 4 to 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups bleached all-purpose, high-gluten flour; 10 ounces cold water; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons baking powder; 2 tablespoons peanut oil; 5 cups peanut oil; 20 medium-size fresh oysters, opened, removed from shells, patted dry, dusted with flour

Jah Sang Ho Editor's note: This recipe is reprinted from My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons, by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo. Oysters are one of those three fruits of the sea permissible to Buddhists and were therefore insisted upon for New Year lunch by my grandmother. Cooking them with a batter is traditional. Their name, ho see, sounds like the Chinese words for good business.

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

December 14, 2008

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