Fresh Squid with Sha Cha Sauce (沙茶花枝, shāchá huāzhī)

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Cuisine: Chinese | Course Type: Main Courses

(1 review)

Tags: stir-fry squid hot chilli keeper chinese cooking

Recipe Review

Absolutely excellent, hot and salty and then that beautiful looking squid - really good! Remember that Chinese dishes are always supposed to be served as one of many, it's not really a serving for four on its own.

Regarding the Chinese characters: Sha Cha translates as Satay Sauce, though it's not what you would find as Satay Sauce (which would most probably be Indonesian or Malay); instead, it's most commonly sold as (Chinese) Barbecue Sauce. Hua Zhi means flowering branch, hua meaning flowers, blossom, zhi meaning branch, limb, to branch off. In combination, they can also mean both beautiful woman and octopus. I can get both associations, though on my own I would never have found that connection between beautiful woman and octopus.

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Comments

Queezle_Sister - 16th September 2011
It is so cool that you were able to put the Chinese characters on that recipe name! Not to mention making squid -- yum says the landlocked cookbooker.

friederike - 16th September 2011
I always get frozen squid, which works pretty well - wouldn't that be an option for you too?

Queezle_Sister - 16th September 2011
Oh - maybe so - great idea!

friederike - 18th September 2011
Queezle_Sister, I updated the review with some information on the Chinese characters I forgot to mention in the beginning, thought you might like to know.

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