Happy today, we had a nice eat together with friends and experienced a new way of eating steamed fish which I have never tried before. It's called Yunnan Steam Fish Pot which is delicious and healthful too.
云南蒸汽石锅鱼 Yunnan Steam Fish Pot restaurant in Scarborough, Toronto is a bright compact space, simple pleasant decor and comfortably furnished. The wall to wall mirrors on one side made the restaurant brighter and looked bigger.
Angel and family have been coming here regularly in the past three years and it is one of their favourite restaurants near their home.
On each table was a large embedded stone pot covered with a pointy conical straw hat.
The stone pot had a steam vent at the bottom.
Customers choose a main dish - there's fish, chicken, lamb. Soup base - signature, spicy, sour. Add ons of meats, seafood, mushroom, vegetables. Tick the boxes and hand this sheet to the staff. Pricing here is slightly on the premium side.
There were three layers here inside the pot. At the bottom were pieces of free range chicken stir fried with soya sauce. Two live green bass fish 青斑鱼 were laid on top of the chicken. Then, ginger, spring onion, red dates, wolf berries, dried longan etc were scattered on top. A little bit of signature chicken soup was poured into the pot of ingredients.
Cover with the straw hat and let the contents cook for 4 - 5 minutes with pressurised 380℃ steam from the vent. Good time for wefies and getting the dips ready 😄
There was the usual array of spices and sauces at the mix it yourself dips counter. My usual blend of aromatic hot dip with chili, caramelised onion, sesame sauce, chopped spring onion etc.
Lifting the straw hat, the contents almost completely submerged in a steamy, milky looking broth.
The soup was nicely well balanced savoury sweet with many complementary layers. The fish, chicken, red dates, longan etc contributed their flavours to the clean tasting soup.
The fish was soft but not mushy. It was sweet savoury with very subtle fleeting earthly taste. It was memorably delicious. Note that the fish was bony.
While we were enjoying our fish and chicken, the staff piled on the vegetables, tofu, mushrooms, Foochow fish balls and other ingredients which Angel earlier checked off on the order sheet.
On came the straw hat and another round of high pressure steaming. Then, a second round of soup and lots of greens for the next round of delicious healthful goodness.
Recommended for you 👍 Oh I so love this dish. Thank you Angel and family for introducing and treating us to this lovely place and dish. Dear reader, do check this out when you are in Toronto. (Service was a little hurried even though the restaurant wasn't busy.) I hope to find Yunnan steam fish pot in Singapore and Malaysia as I would love to have it again.
After lunch, we went to the nearby Pacific Mall in Scarborough. The shop mix in the sprawling mall reminded me of Sungai Wang Mall in Kuala Lumpur. Half of the 23 year old mall have been demolished to make way for, what else, another high rise condo complex.
There was a street food fair outside at the car park. A huge crowd was out to enjoy the summer and atmosphere.
One of the stalls was selling BBQ Thai durian. We were too full. Shall try it next time even though it doesn't feel appealing at first sight 😂
Next stop was the huge T & T supermarket by Loblaws specialising in Asian food and groceries.
They have the type of green bass fish 青斑鱼 which we had at Yunnan Steam Fish Pot in the seafood section. It is also known as smallmouth bass which is popular with anglers fishing the Great Lakes as it is a good fighter.
T & T even have a durian section with several brands of frozen durian and durian from Thailand with shell. I didn't try as I think it will only make my craving for fresh durian worst.
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Restaurant name: Yunnan Steam Fish Pot 云南蒸汽石锅鱼
Address: 3280 Midland Ave #21, Scarborough, ON M1V 0C7 (intersection of Midland Ave and Finch Ave East)
GPS: 43°48'21.1"N 79°17'20.6"W 🌐 43.805853, -79.289041
Tel: (416) 292-7666
Hours: 12:00 noon - 12:00 midnight
Non Halal
Date visited: 29 Jun 2019
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ReplyDeleteI am sure you meant the steam was 380F instead of C. Not possible have steam at such high temp, I don’t think.
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