Anyone here ever eat shark fin soup? Just curious as to what the appeal is. From the small sharks I have caught while surf fishing, it looks like a shark fin would be chomping on a piece of plastic. Then there are the many thousands of pounds of edible shark meat that goes to waste. I’m guessing you have to be rich to afford a bowl of shark fin soup. SMH
In the 60’s it wasn’t expensive in Asia. It was quite glutinous and I remember it being quite pleasant but after so long I couldn’t describe the taste.
Best shark fin soup in Singapore in my young and tender days were at a restaurant at Changi Beach Rd. called “South China Sea Beach” (now somewhere under runway 2 of Changi Airport)
But you had to know which cook was working, since the one that made the best Shark fin soup was off some days of the week.
Dried shark fins is used to make Shark fin Soup:
They do not have much taste, it is all the other ingrediencies that do that. Here is a recipe for real Shark fin Soup:
PS> Today it is mostly “Imitation Shake fin Soup” on the menu:
The photo of the dried shark fins reminds me of when my grandfather would butcher a hog and boil the ears. (I don’t remember why; I was just a little squirt. My daddy would carve a little paddle so I could help stir the cracklins’ they were cooking the lard out of. (Around here there ain’t no “G” on cracklins.)
Could be wrong but believe it to be yet another well established aphrodisiac or potency cures the far eastern market embraces.
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