Fresh Fish Skin Salad: A Unique Cantonese Street Snack

Fish skin salad is a refreshing snack in Guangdong, the home of Cantonese food in China. Made with boiled fish skin, peanuts, ginger, scallions, and soy sauce, the dish is bursting with umami and seafood flavors.

We went to Chen Tian Ji, a family-owned shop in Guangzhou that’s said to have invented the dish in the 1970s, to see how it’s made.

This is the last episode of our five-part series about established mom-and-pop eateries. Check out the other videos in our Mean Street Gourmet series at gt4.life/msg

0:00 How fish skin salad tastes
0:26 Meet the owner
1:00 The origin of fish skin salad
1:19 How fish skin salad is made
2:56 The future of the shop

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Producer: Xin Fang
Videographers: Canrong Zhang and Xin Fang
Editors:  Mario Chui and Joel Roche
Mastering: Victor Peña

Music: Audio Network

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