OYSTER MARINADE RECIPES

Steps:

• Cut your flank steak into medium or 1/4 inch slices. Once cut, put the meat into a room-temperature water bath to rinse out the myoglobin.
• Peel and thinly slice the yellow onion into 1/4 inch thickness. Wash the bean sprouts, drain, and set aside. Wash and chop the green onions into 1 inch long pieces. Use all of the green onions and separate the white parts from the green parts.
• In a medium-sized bowl, mix the baking soda, cornstarch, oyster sauce, soy sauce, tamari, white pepper, water, cooking wine, sugar, and mix until everything is incorporated and smooth.
• Drain the meat from the water bath, squeeze out the excess water. Add the meat into the marinade and mix until the meat is fully coated in the marinade and set it aside.
• Prepare the rice noodles by separating the noodles if you see them stuck together.
• In a small bowl, mix tamari, soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Once mixed, set it aside.
• Add cooking oil to the marinated beef to seal the juices in the beef.
• Fry the yellow onion and the white parts of the scallions for 20-30 seconds or until fragrant.
• Add the beef and mix. Let everything cook together for 1 more minute. Turn off the heat and add the sesame oil.
• Taste to adjust the flavors and plate once it's to your taste! This is usually served at the center of the table and everyone can take the amount they want.

Steps:

• We'll chop our green onion into small pieces. Most (or all of it) will go into the filling, but we can optionally save some for garnish later.
• We'll start by cutting our pork shoulder into slices, then into strips, and then into small bits. We don't want to mince them excessively into fine bits like our fish ball recipe - we want a bit of chewiness to it.
• Assuming the shrimp you bought was peeled + deveined, we'll chop our shrimp into roughly fingernail-sized bits.
• Before we marinate the pork, we'll want to squeeze as much water out of it as we can. Press the pork firmly against the colander repeatedly.
• Add the shrimp and green onions to the bowl but DON'T MIX them together yet. We'll cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate the filling for at least 30 minutes to let the meat absorb the marinade. If you start folding immediately, then the wrappers will be too wet.
• Wet a spoon with some water, and proceed to mix the pork, green onions, and shrimp together for about 30-60 seconds until everything is evenly mixed.
• I should preface by saying there are A LOT of different methods of folding wontons out there. In our video, my dad explains two easy methods to try.
• For the second method, all we need is a spoon. After putting about a teaspoon of filling in the center of the wrapper, we'll press our thumb and index fingers into a hole and drape the wrapper over the center of hole.
• After folding, you can cook them immediately and skip this part.
• Next, we'll bring a pot of water to a boil to start cooking our wontons.
• We'll transfer the wontons out of the pot to stop them from cooking. Call your loved ones over! It's time to eat :)