karyx on Nostr: When I first made oden as a child, I added the fish cakes in the hot broth and kept ...

When I first made oden as a child, I added the fish cakes in the hot broth and kept at a rolling boil. I wondered why my oden never looked like the ones in restaurants, but I found out later that fish cakes shouldn't be boiled.
Since fish cake is a semi-cooked food, it's enough to just heat it up. The most accurate expression would be to soak it in hot broth.

Nowadays, Googling and AI can teach you everything at your fingertips, but when I was a child, my cookbooks didn't have a recipe for fish cake soup, and such things had to be learned through trial and error.

Here are a few tips to avoid failure:

> When the broth is boiling vigorously, lower the heat to a level that warms the fish cakes. And then add fish cakes.

> The same goes for shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, and sliced spring onions. Just soak them in the hot broth to cook them. I like shiitake mushrooms to be moist, so soaked them for a long time.

> But remember that mushrooms are basically fungi. While they are good for your health and taste great, they can be dangerous if not heated properly. Putting enoki mushrooms raw in salads is a suicidal act.🙅‍♀️

When saw an article saying that enoki mushrooms killed someone:
Westerners: Oh no, mushrooms are dangerous! 😱
Asians: Who tf eats them raw? 😧

> The serving bowl can be kept warm if you use a thick ceramic.

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