🤑 Making the most EXPENSIVE seafood dish (Abalone with Lettuce 鮑魚生菜)


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Watch as my dad prepares one of the fanciest and most expensive seafood dishes ever, Abalone with Lettuce! He’ll teach you …

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  1. Jeremy Choo
    Jeremy Choo says:

    It’s hardly the most expensive. The abalone in the video are quite small and I’d be embarrassed to serve this to guests. The abalone need to be at least palm-sized. The wild-caught ones from Mexico are the best. When it comes to the most expensive, that will be the “holy trinity” of braised abalone, sea cucumber and 花胶. I don’t think that’s a recipe we’ll see on Made with Lau any time soon since prepping the dried abalone and sea cucumber will take days, as will the braising.

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  2. sherryillk
    sherryillk says:

    Cans of abalone were on sale at Costco the week before CNY. We bought some for the convenience but we were already rehydrating the dried ones (multiple day process plus a very lengthy braise) so we haven't even tried them yet.

    Also, what is with that weird pronunciation of geoduck? What kind of West Coast Asian doesn't know it's pronounced "gooey-duck"??

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  3. Lady Luck
    Lady Luck says:

    Since it was such an auspicious dish my mom always made this for the Lunar New Year. It was my favorite but I never got the chance to learn the recipe.! Thank you Daddy Lau for helping to keep these memories and traditions alive.

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  4. Sortius
    Sortius says:

    Wow, that's crazy, it's hard to get live/fresh abalone in the US?

    Here in Melbourne, in Australia, I can order frozen online (AU$30/kg), or buy them live from either the Queen Victoria Market (AU$10/each) or from the Footscray Live Fish seller (AU$15/each).

    Or, I can legally take 10 from the waters around Victoria.

    Of course, I can get cans or dried from the local Asian grocers.

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  5. X1 Gen KaneshiroX
    X1 Gen KaneshiroX says:

    Abalone is way too overpriced & serve little purposes, no doubt about that… I heard that there’s a can of abalone selling for a ridiculous $250 and even $25 for a can is too expensive. They’re using a $77 can of abalone?!?! It should’ve honestly been $7.70 which is a fair price NOT $77.

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  6. Lillian Louie
    Lillian Louie says:

    My parents would make use of canned abalone back in the day! At a restaurant in Southern China, I had a dish of 3 small abalone for about $1.75. Delicious and the shells were so pretty.

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  7. L Louie
    L Louie says:

    Thank you so much for sharing this recipe, I have been looking high and low and watched so many others but I found this is the simplest and the best! Many thanks!

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  8. Ken Rik
    Ken Rik says:

    I remember as a kid over 55 years ago going to Chinese banquets and being served abalone. We used to say it was like bubblegum due to chewy texture. It was one of my favorite dishes.

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