What is Fried Dace w/ Fermented Black Beans? How to Cook with It? (4 Recipes Included) 

I grew up eating this and absolutely love it. My family would normally just eat it with white rice alone and I never knew there were multiple recipes you could make with it. Thank you for sharing these recipes. I'm definitely going to try these!

I have eaten this for 50+ years, just warm it up, give me a bowl of rice and I’m a happy man 😋🥰

I am definitely making the Eggplant and Dace recipe!! I love eggplant and I love tinned fish and I love fermented black beans. This will be a winner!!

Mandy, you work so hard to bring us delicious recipes 🙏 Thank you!

Love this kind of recipes where we can use can food mix with other ingredients and very quickly can get meals on the table in no time.... TQ Mandy !

Hi Mandy...thank you so much for these additional recipe for Fried Dace. Now I have added these to my repertoire. 🙂. This is one of my favorite canned good, which was prepared differently. I also shared this recipe to my sister. Everyone enjoys it. This recipe was shared to me by an elder Thai lady almost 35 yrs ago and I still prepare it this way. Ingredients consist of a can of Fried Dace (better with black bean), half a bunch of cilantro (cut up), 2-3 talks of green onion, 1-2 jalapeno pepper (diced), half of a large sweet onion (or shallot), juice of 1 lemon, Knorr liquid seasoning, and hot sauce. Take out the fried dace just like yours, cut into bite pieces (minus the bones). Set aside the oil & black beans while preparing for the salad. Cut the cilantro, green onions, onion (or shallots), & jalapeno and put them in a bowl. Top it with the cut up Fried dace. Add the black beans (without the oil), mix carefully (to keep the fish still intact), Drizzle the lemon juice, the knorr liquid seasoning, hot sauce & a little bit of the reserved oil. Taste it & adjust the spiciness, the heat & the saltiness with liquid seasoning.

i am Cantonese , and i love food ...and i totaly agree with your cooking on these ... These are very practical tips and the food/dishes are exactly the way it is/was when my own mother cooked them 40 years ago .. 👍👍👍

Of all the wonderful and helpful videos you've made for us, Mandy, I think this is my favorite. Your presentation is so clear and the information is very accessible. I want to try everything! Thank you.

I love fried dace with black beans. Grew up with it and I still love it. There are a variety of fried dace you can buy so make sure to check the labels. I made the mistake of just picking up a stack and some were of another kind.

I learned about canned dace in fermented black beans from Chris and Steph at Chinese Cooking Demystified and really loved its versatility and punch of flavor it adds with little effort. I always keep a can in my pantry, right next to the tuna. Honestly, most of the time I eat it over freshly made, hot rice, maybe with some garlic and ginger added if I’m feeling fancy. The dace with lettuce sounds amazing! I love recipes that let the vegetables shine for themselves, so this is perfect. I bet it would be equally good with Chinese celery, cabbage, watercress, pea shoots and more. Maybe bitter greens like frisée, endive, and arugula would be better? Thanks again for practical, well-researched recipes and step by step videos and

I'm never disappointed by your videos, there's always something new that I've never tried and you do such an excellent job of demonstrating their preparation in such a charming, interesting and thorough manner!!

I've lived in China for almost 8 years, and have always seen this tinned fish in every shop, but didn't want to buy it because I was unsure how to cook with it, but then upon seeing your last recipe with the bitter melon, I went out to my local store and bought a few tins, and oh my goodness! It was amaaaazing!! I like the eggplant recipe, I will try that this weekend. Thanks!

I just tried the dace with bitter melon dish. We all love it! It's an affordable dish. So quick, easy and delicious! Thank you for sharing!

Again you make me a bit emotional. This episode brings back memories of my father and me eating this fish, often just with white rice, when I was a student. My mother hated this, so we ate this at my place. Thanks Mandy, for bringing back sweet memories.

I would absolutely LOVE to know how to make fried dace! Have always been curious 🌸 until now it’s just been a mysterious can of magic delight that you get from the grocery store with no idea how it’s really made

What a fantastic video! I remember eating this with white rice with my parents when I was a little boy. Have bought it off and on over the years and still love it. My mom has passed now but i think im going to make the eggplant and fried dace to share with my dad. I think he will find it really amusing that I am actually cooking it in a dish. Thank you so much for the video!

Thanks for showing how to prep dace. In the past I wanted to try canned dace but wondered how its prepped. Now I can make an authentic chinese meal. 🥣

Growing up poor this was one of my faves since the eighties. Till the stores stop stocking the ones with fermented black beans. But in my love for Asian stores big and small I have finally found one I can access everyday if I got that Dace and bean urge. I definitely will try that recipe.

Thank you Mandy for sharing. 4 Great recipes 👍

Wow! Mandy and Souped Up Recipes really knows their stuff! So many wonderful recipes and products available by mail on this channel. This is all real. Top shelf, top level Chinese food channel.

My favorite!! Especially the one with fermented black beans. I always heat it up & top it off with egg noodles and various chinese greens...both steamed or boiled. Simple & delicious. Thanks for extra recipes. 😊

I learned so much about cooking eggplant, thank you! Everything looks delicious.

I got your Wok for Christmas. It's got to be one of the best woks ive ever used. Works great with my induction cook top, and it's got a nice weight too. High quality stuff, highly recommend others to get one. The lid and tool that came with it are very nice too, I was surprised at the lid inclusion especially.

sure made me hungry ! This canned fish is my favorite discovery, many thanks for making me aware of it. I love the taste and the texture is fantastic.

i tried a recipe with it recently and very much enjoyed it. I have some extra cans and will probably be trying all these recipes, thanks!

Omg, I love fried dace on my plain fried rice. I am salivating right now.

Thank you for explaining this product. I won’t by pass now 😊

Omg! I am going to try this recipe as I have seen these cans of fish and now know how to use them. It may be a great interactive idea if you ask your viewers to present an ingredient that they don't know how to cook.❤ u Mandy!

I have walked past these in the store, so thank you for showing us 4 different ways! My husband really likes the look of the fish meatball recipe.

Thank you for this video! I find these videos very interesting where you show us how to use different products that we see all the time in Asian supermarkets without knowing what they really are and without knowing how to use them.

She is good in both cooking n narrating. She made it so easy to understand. Good job girl

These first two look so easy and delicious! I especially can't wait to make the eggplant one.

This was a wonderful, informative video!! Thank you so much.

This is a must have item in the pantry. when I am lazy to cook , I would just eat this with rice and it's so delicious.

Perfect cookware set and love measures inside your wok is what I need to master. 😮

I grew up eating this I love the stuff. It goes really well with rice

Nice recipes. I usually eat this straight out the tin with steamed white rice. My children love it too😊

As usual an excellent video with excellent recipes! Thank you.

Love the recipes and excited to try them. Thanks for sharing :)

the first recipe with eggplant is so colorful! beautiful!

This is my go-to with porridge if I want a warm tummy on a cold chilly day.

So happy to have found your channel! Now I have the right help to make these dishes correctly ❤

What a great recipe.Thank you

My grandmother just loved fried dace and would make it as often as possible back in the 70s through the 90s. She would mainly steam it with the black beans and serve stir fried vegetables on the side or the tomato egg side dish.

Oh, this all looks amazing! And I am lucky enough to discover that my local Chinese store stocks Fried Dace with Salted Black Beans 豆豉鲮鱼! Thank you Mandy! 🙏🥰

Unbelievably well done!

I liked, subscribed and ordered 12 cans on subscribe and save. I can't wait to try it. I love fermented black beans and salty fish, so I know I will love.it. Thanks so much. You are teaching this southern lady some good recipes!

❤❤thank you so much for these 4 ways of eating this can fish. 😊😊

Thank you for sharing these delicious recipes.

Always some of the most interesting and nutritious recipes. I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Fantastic!

Great recipes! Thanks! I will happily try them.

I've been wanting to try the fried dace and have a can in my cupboard, thanks for this video

I want to cook this way.Thankyou for sharing recipies

Definitely love to learn how to make fried dace with fermented black bean.

Thank you so much, we asked and you responded 😊 these look delicious.

I visited our Asian store and made your bitter melon recipe using this fish . It was so delicious.

I am one of those who does not know what to do with the can dace. I saw your video and tried it since my mom bought a couple of cans at home... loves it. You should do more videos on these.

Great recipes for using fish. Thank you for sharing 🤩🥰🙏🏻

Looks delicious. I’m going to try to make all of these.

Thank you for sharing your recipes. I love to receive your dace fish with fermented black bean and kindly provide us with your cooking info❤️👍. Many thanks in advance.

Wow Mandy. New look. Fantastic. It’s very welcome and comforting. Long time follower. You are very unique and one of a kind. 💕

I eat it right from the can sometimes. It's so good.

I loved eating this stuff in China. Especially for breakfast with a little rufu on a mantou. It was virtually free too! But here in the UK it's very expensive, and while I often see it in the Chinese supermarket, I don't buy it. Perhaps I should splash out and treat myself for old times sake?

ALL of these dishes look delicious!

So handy ! We use to eat this with plain porridge for breakfast on the weekends 😋

I’m going to pick me up a can of this when I’m at my local Chinese grocery store. Always appreciate the recipes chef 👍🏻

canned dace is my favorite canned fish. head and shoulders above all others.

This has nothing with food but your hair looks good! And thank you for this recipe. 😊

Thanks for the recipes Mandy

😊 @Soupeduprecipes please do more of these traditional dishes as I want recaptured some lost childhood memories of home comfort that normally won't be on restaurant's menu thank you

Thank you for sharing all these wonderful recipes, Mandy 👍 I usually just eat the fish and fermented beans right out of the can with a big bowl of steamed rice bc I don't have the patience to wait 😅 By the way, I would recommend to use Google search for things you don't know but would like to find out what it is. Just click the little camera icon in the Google search bar on your phone and take a picture of the subject. You can then search for it or if the picture contains text Google could translate it too. Give it a whirl ✌️

So glad to see this. Months ago, I bought a can and heated the contents in the microwave, placed it on hot rice but did not like it because it was so dry. Now I know shred it and cook it with vegetables!

Mandy, you are wonderful ❤ thank you

Thank you so much! I got a can of dace, because someone told me it was great. Then I got it home and realized I didn't know what to do with it.

Brings back childhood memories.

What a great recipes. So good.

I like fried dace. Thank for recipes

Please make a fried dace video if you could. I've eaten it with plain rice, then decided to make fried rice with the remainder in the past, but I've never bought one with the beans. I'm really loving the "different recipes you can make with the ingredients you normally pass by in an Asian store" themed videos. I love Asian stores because I learn something new each time I go there with all the different ingredients, and I also love trying new Asian recipes and flavors.

I'd like if you made a vid showing how to make this kind of dry fried fish at home. Love fried dace.

Thank you for sharing

Im using my husband's phone hence the name above😅. My Dad would just open a can of this and give use with rice. With some kind of vegetables on the side. He never cooked it with anything. It's only some years ago that my husband and I discovered that u can cook it with bitter melon. Which was one of my husband's favourite vegetable.

I believe it's called stem lettuce in English. I loveeee fried dace. Would love to see how it's made.

Love😊 the technique for squeezing out the meatballs.

Thank you very much !

Had this from time to time growing up, surprisingly legit.

This is my favourite. I use it for Japanese chatsuke or stir fry with bitter melon or zucchini or cucumber. Remember to add a tiny bit of sugar when stir fry. Delish!

Hi Mandy. Tks for all your easy to follow recipes. It would be very much appreciated if you could show me how to make the fried dace fish.

Yes pls. I want to learn how to make this dace fish. Thk you.❤😘

You earned a new subscriber. I am an ethnic Cantonese Chinese American and I grew up eating fried dace. My parents luckily are still with me but are getting very old so they do not cook as much anymore. Your videos help me keep some of these dishes alive. As you said, these are homestyle Cantonese dishes that you cannot, or rarely, order in restaurants. If you grew up in Guangdong, the only thing that would make the videos better is if you spoke in Cantonese instead of Mandarin!

I love this fish cold and slapped between thick slices of fresh bread. Its great for camping and road trips.

Greetings from Redondo Beach CA 🇺🇸. I tried your recipe and it’s very tasty. I also used bitter gourd instead of eggplant and tastes delicious with this canned dace. Thanks for sharing 🌷🌷

Thanks for your sharing chef trick

Hi! There souped up recipes I like the way you organized your video its very clear and easy to follow thanks for interesting cooking videos recipe I like them all.God Bless

Happy New Year! I'm gonna make fish ball now 😊

Thanks for the video

I always look forward to your videos

Mandy, make the fried dace from scratch please. Who agrees?

Hi, So lovely-you ! Thank you so much ❤

Chopsticks also perfect 👌. 😊

just had some a couple of days ago and now i suddenly see it everywhere on youtube! ;) I usually have it with plain white porridge.