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Imitation shark fin soup originated from Temple Street in Hong Kong during the 1950s and 1960s. [72] Few people at that time could afford genuine shark fin soup, but street vendors collected the broken parts of shark fins discarded by Chinese restaurants and cooked them with mushrooms, egg, and pork, as well as soy sauce and other ingredients.
Brazil has long been the largest consumer of shark meat in the World. The most common species fished and consumed in the country is the blue shark, but Brazil is also the largest importer of shark meat, and imported species are often not correctly identified. [8] Shark meat is marketed generically as cação, regardless of
China's late-20th-century economic reforms produced a middle class that increased demand for traditional luxury items like shark fins. [1] Chinese traditional medicine ascribes various restorative and healing effects to the fins, and the soup is considered a delicacy, costing as much as US$100 per bowl.
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The soup or stew consists of many ingredients, especially animal products, and requires one to two full days to prepare. [2] A typical recipe requires many ingredients including quail eggs, bamboo shoots, scallops, sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, fish maw, chicken, Jinhua ham, pork tendon, ginseng, mushrooms and taro.
Other dishes included shark fin (vi cá), abalone (bào ngư), deer's tendon (gân nai), bears' hands (tay gấu), and rhinoceros' skin (da tê giác). Water had to come from the Hàm Long well, the Báo Quốc pagoda, the Cam Lồ well (near the base of Thúy Vân mountain), or from the source of the Hương River.
Shark fin dumpling (Chinese: 魚翅餃) is a dim sum dish in Hong Kong. It is a form of Dumpling in Superior Soup ( Chinese : 灌湯餃 ), a dumpling with gelatinous broth inside. As with shark fin soup , the shark fin content is often replaced with an imitation.
Nearly every fin of a shark is targeted for harvest, as highlighted in the diagram. The primary and secondary dorsal fins are removed from the top of the shark, plus its pectoral fins, and, in a single cutting motion, the pelvic fin, anal fin, and bottom portion of its caudal fin, or tail.