This is a particularly nice way to eat fish. In fact it is one of my favourites, and I’ll be eating one in an hour or so, so I’d better be quick!

The dish typically uses a fish called Gwei Yu ( a bit like a perch-fish, but with delicious flesh and very few bones), and the dish is called Qinzhen Gwei Yu, or "steamed expensive fish" as in the literal translation.

Anyway, for a rainbow trout, this is a fine way to go.

First you need a fish: I caught mine yesterday at Eleanour Lake. The fish then needs to be well cleaned, all scales removed, guts out and head off. Take a look at the pikkie below:

It is advisable to slash the fish diagonally a few times to help get the flavour deep inside.

You will need a steaming vessel, if you don’t have one, then you could improvise a little. A large lidded pan needs to totally engulf a smaller pan and the smaller pan needs to be raised from the floor of the larger pan. The large pan holds the water, and steam, whilst the smaller pan holds the fish and the special sauce. A steamer with a lattice platform is no good as the delicious sauce is allowed to fall into the water reservoir and be lost. What we are trying to do is to hold a lipped platform in the steam zone, upon which we can place the fish and a delicious sauce, more of which follows.

Ok, put a few cms of water inside the large pan, place the raising block into the middle of the large pan floor. Place the fish-and-sauce-holding-tray onto the raising block, and be sure that the large pan’s lid can be put on, after the fish has been placed on the platform.

The fish needs to be prepared for cooking in the following way some 2 hours before cooking:

Sorry, I was too late, I missed the correct sequence of events, and the fish is already cooked, anyway, it is something like this:

Cut up some ginger root, spring onion and place inside fish and into slashes, add a little salt. Pour some rice wine and soya sauce over the fish and leave for a while. Put fish and sauce onto steaming platform and let it steam until done. Remove the fish from steaming platform and put on serving dish and pour the sauce from the steaming platform over the fish.

It should be delicious and look like this: