Snow Frog Fat / Hashima (Xue Ha)
プルプルの極上デザート！雪山に住むカエルの「食べる美容液」
Description
An ultra-premium dry good of dried fat (fallopian tubes) around the oviducts of female 'Asiatic Grass Frogs' (Xue Ha) living in freezing snowy mountains of Northeast China. Called 'Hashima' in English. Known as the 'ultimate beauty sweet ingredient' alongside Bird's Nest; rehydrating expands it dozens of times into transparent, bouncy jelly.
Classification: Premium Ingredient, Ingredient, Dry Goods, Xue Ha, Hashima, Frog, Beauty, Dessert, Collagen
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How to use
Ingredients
- Asiatic Grass Frog (Xue Ha) fat(Fallopian tubes)
Instructions
- [Typical Uses]
- [Mu Gua Dun Xue Ha (Papaya & Hashima Beauty Dessert)]: Hashima, completely deodorized by boiling with ginger, is placed inside a hollowed papaya, and steamed meltingly soft with milk and rock sugar. A signature sweet of high-end HK/Guangdong restaurants.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
Tasteless. Slightly bouncier than Bird's Nest、offering a premium 'fluffy、melting、chewy' collagen jelly texture
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Substitute texture with 'Xue Yan (Snow Swallow tree sap)' or 'Tapioca'
Pairing
Papaya / Milk / Rock Sugar / White Wood Ear
Trivia
Looks like yellowish raisins when dry, but soaking in water expands it unbelievably into giant white cotton clouds (called 'Fa Pao').
Eating tips & etiquette
Japanese recoil hearing it's frog organ fat, but in the Qing Dynasty, it was a 'phantom ingredient' permitted only for the Emperor's court cuisine. Even today, HK female celebs rave and love eating it, claiming 'it makes skin glow'.
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