ingredient like the sea cucumber in chinese food. it is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish. it has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavor of other ingredients it is cooked with. for the chinese, it is considered one of the big four precious traditional delicacies of the sea: abalone...
swim bladder that is found in all fish except sharks and rays. the maw in itself is a texture ingredient only, and is used with other strongly flavoured ingredients to make it interesting. it usually requires only a couple of minutes cooking to absorb the flavours in the pot. in cantonese culinary, abalone...