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     Title: MOCK FISH BUDDHIST
Categories: Vegetarian, Chinese
     Yield: 1 servings

     1 lg Potato; cooked, peeled
          -and sliced 1/4 inch thick
     2 tb Flour
          Peanut oil; for frying
     1 sm Onion; sliced
   1/2 lb Snow peas
    10    Wood ears; soaked to soften,
          - tough ends removed,
          - cut in slivers
   1/2 ts Salt
   1/2 ts Sugar
   1/3 c  Water

     Sprinkle potatoes with flour and deep-fry until
 golden.
  Drain and set aside. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons
 of the oil, reheat an add onion. Stir-fry 10 seconds
 and add snow peas and wood ears. Stir-fry another 10
 seconds and add salt, sugar and water. Bring to rapid
 boil, stirring constantly, and cook until peas are
 just tender crisp. Add reserved fried potato slices,
 heat through and serve.
     Wood ears are a type of mushroom or shelf fungus.
 When soaked it has a crunchy, gelatinous texture with
 little taste. If you can't find them, I imagine that
 you could use the dried mushrooms although they
 wouldn't give exactly the same effect. A closer
 substitute would be dried jellyfish, but if you're
 some- where that sells dried jellyfish, I'm sure that
 they have wood ears as well...

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