- Any taste
- Savory70
- Spicy25
- Sweet20
- Sour16
- Smoky4
- Rich24
- Fresh11
- Any ingredient
- Beef11
- Pork33
- Lamb7
- Chicken16
- Duck3
- Fish6
- Seafood9
- Egg5
- Dairy & cheese5
- Beans & tofu12
- Rice12
- Wheat & flour40
- Potato3
- Vegetables8
- Offal8
- Nuts & seeds5
- Any type
- Main dish36
- Soup & stew10
- Noodles & pasta21
- Bread & pastry4
- Street food13
- Dessert7
- Snack11
- Drink6
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How to pronounce Stinky mandarin fish
Stinky mandarin fish is written 臭鳜鱼 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /tʂʰòʊ kwèɪ.y̌/. In plain English letters that is CHOH GWAY-yoo, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.
What is Stinky mandarin fish?
Stinky mandarin fish is a main dish of China. Where it comes from: Anhui. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are fish. It tastes savory and rich.
Where Stinky mandarin fish comes from
Stinky mandarin fish is one of 108 signature dishes of China on this map.
- Hairy tofu 毛豆腐
Hairy tofu, mao doufu, is tofu that has been fermented until it grows a coat of fine white mould, which gives it its name.
- Peking duck 北京烤鸭
Roast duck was eaten in China's imperial kitchens long before it reached Beijing; it is often traced to Nanjing when that city was the Ming capital, and the court brought it north in the 15th century.
- Xiaolongbao 小笼包
Xiaolongbao are small soup dumplings steamed in the bamboo basket that gives them their name.
- Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐
Mapo tofu is Sichuan cooking in one bowl: soft tofu in a red, oily sauce of fermented broad-bean chilli paste with minced beef and plenty of Sichuan pepper, which leaves the mouth tingling.
- Lanzhou beef noodles 兰州牛肉面
In Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu on the old Silk Road, a bowl of beef noodles is breakfast.
- Shengjian mantou 生煎馒头
Shengjian mantou, or simply shengjian, are small pan-fried buns, a speciality of Shanghai and Suzhou.
Dishes like Stinky mandarin fish in other countries
Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Stinky mandarin fish:
- Fish amok អាម៉ុកត្រី
Fish amok is freshwater fish in a thick coconut custard flavoured with kroeung, a paste of lemongrass, galangal, turmeric, kaffir lime and garlic, and noni leaves, steamed in a cup of banana leaves.
- Chanchan-yaki ちゃんちゃん焼き
Chanchan-yaki is fish, usually salmon, grilled together with vegetables and seasoned with miso, and it is the signature dish of the fishing towns of Hokkaido and Aomori.
- Kulebyaka кулебяка
Kulebyaka is a traditional Russian closed pie, a large pirog usually filled with salmon or sturgeon, rice or buckwheat, hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms, onions and dill, baked in a shell of brioche or puff pastry.
- Jansson's temptation Janssons frestelse
Jansson's temptation is a Swedish gratin of potatoes, onions, cream and Swedish 'anchovies', which are in fact spiced, pickled sprats.