Recipe - Deep-Fried Bamboo Shoots And Salted Cabbag

One half cup Dried salted cabbage
1 One half cup Bamboo shoots
Oil for deepfrying
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Sesame oil
One fourth teaspoon Sugar

1. Soak dried salted cabbage.

2. Cut bamboo shoots in strips, as for Frenchfried potatoes. Cut soaked
cabbage in 1inch sections.

3. Heat oil and deepfry bamboo shoots until pale golden. Drain on paper
toweling. Sprinkle with salt and sugar; keep warm.

4. In another pan, heat sesame oil. Add cabbage and stirfry to heat
through. Sprinkle with remaining sugar.

5. Arrange cabbage strips on a platter with bamboo shoots on top, and serve
at once. VARIATION: For the dried cabbage, substitute fresh mustard
cabbage. (See "Basic Stirfried Vegetables" for details.)

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.