Salted fish braised toufo – Signatory mine

Julie Olive — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:23:36 +0000

Whenever I traveled back from Malaysia I always carry half a dozen raw whole salted fish back to UK. Then when I have time and if the weather permits, I will fry them outside in my garden. After frying, I individually packed and sealed them for my fridge and freezer. This makes it simpler for me to use them whenever I wanted to.

Thus far I have cooked 2 dishes. – Salted fish steamed with pork belly

Salted fish braised with toufo.

Fry toufo after coating with a mixture of rice and corn flours before frying garlic and shallots. Add the carrots and a whole head of Chinese leaf cabbage. Including the soaked mushrooms and the soaking liquid. Seasoned with a touch of oyster sauce, salt and pepper and light soy sauce. Hubby loves it.

Seared all sides and remove.

Common sense – hard vegetables first in.

Braise for 30 minutes or so.

Add in the prepared salted fish with ginger oil and placed the crispy shallots back in.

Salted fish braised toufo – Signatory mine

Slicing, frying and packing.

Kiam Hue from Kuching

So handsome

Dried in the sun

Always fry a lorry load of ginger first.

1 kg of ginger julienne

Before cleaning I will always fry minced garlic + more minced ginger.

Sieved

The garlic and ginger paste

Signed Sealed Delivered – All mine

Zeepers – Keepers

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Yong Liew (Yong Tau Foo)

Julie Olive — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:31:11 +0000

Yong Liew (Yong Tau Foo) – This famous Hakka-style yong tau foo (also fondly referred to as ‘yong liew‘ aka stuffed … fish paste made from securely-guarded traditional Hakka household secret. it is up to you to create a recipe for yourself that you really really like and then pass on that recipe as your household tradition.

I will give you a guide of my recipe. In my case living in UK I do not have much choices where the fish paste is concerned. I find it better to mix my paste.

I also love to add salted fish but as I have only 2 packets left (from Malaysia) I did not want to use them. Please refer to the pics. If you have any question please feel free to leave me a message.

Yong Liew (Yong Tau Foo)

Ingredients

500 g Mackerels or white fish or the frozen one in my pic
Freshly ground white pepper
1 tsp Salt
1 tbsp Cornstarch
1 bowl Cold water

Notes

TIP – Use a clean chopping board
TIP – If you are using a chopping board make sure to line your floor with paper and board on top as the fish paste will fly everywhere.
TIP – You can use a food processor but make sure not to overflow it as they get stuck in the middle inside the blade.
TIP – Use enough water to reach the consistency and softness you want. Fresh fish may needs more water.
TIP – Use cold salt water to wet your hands when you are throwing the paste.

The Paste Mix. You can just use the fish paste on it’s own by adding, salt, white pepper, cornstarch and cold tap water. As far as I could remember this was how my grandmother used to do hers.

I have make fish paste mix with salted fish, fish paste with dried shrimps and chicken with prawns. I love all of them. Remember if you use salted fish and dried shrimps it is better to fry them first for that amazing umami taste. Wash and soak dried shrimps and pound them slightly before frying.

Please remember you can add in sesame oil, chicken powder and soy sauce even. Adding mince pork makes for firmer paste. Use the mixture of fish and prawns for bean-curd wraps and bak choy. They are better with softer paste.

We have 2 types of ready fish paste here in UK
This is the much better one to use. The other taste of ammonia!
I prefer to mince my own pork to add in to my paste.
I cut off the fats to make lard oil.
Then I blend my paste. Here is 50/50 pork belly and fish paste
You have to throw it a bit and this will ensure they stick nice;y.
After throwing a few times, wet your hand each time….
Store
The paste is ready after I wet my hand with a bit of lard and rub all over it.
1) 50/50 pork and fish paste 2) 33/33/33 fish paste, pork and prawns 3) 25/25/25/25 fish paste, pork, prawns and crabs 4) Just fish and crab.

The vegetables you can use to stuff with your paste. You can use not only the usual toufo fresh or fried, bean-curd skin, chillies, long beans, bitter-gourds, mushrooms, Chinese fried dough you tiaw, aubergines, flipped inside out toufo pop, baby pak choy …….let your imagination run wild.

Misc pics.

This can be made the night before when watching television.
Better to soak mushrooms overnight
Beancurd wraps
You tiaw
make a small cut and flip the fried toufo inside out
After stuffing give it a squeeze to shape it round before frying.
You can stuff normal pak choy or baby ones. This needs to be poached not fried.

The final presentations.

Enjoy trying.

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Salted fish braised toufo – Signatory mine

Yong Liew (Yong Tau Foo)

Yong Liew (Yong Tau Foo)

Ingredients

Notes