Comments on: Mussels with Black Beans a la Ming Tsai

By: timmy

timmy — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:39:09 +0000

my thai neighbor serves his mussels this way:

wrap the clean mussels in foil with slices of ginger and sang. bake in a preheated oven (i use my toaster at the condo)

sawsawan: use an almirez to pound a whole head of garlic (skin removed) and about 10 siling labuyo until you make a mash consistency of garlic and sili. mix with juice of 20 pcs.kalamansi, 1/3 cup fish sauce, 2 tablespoons sugar.

yum!

By: lojet

lojet — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:12:30 +0000

We can get bagged cultured mussels here though they are smaller than the NZ. i just sautee it with chicken powdered bouillion garlic, onion, ginger and tanglad and eat with steamed rice.

I remember liking guinamos Amahong in a jar. Is it still available there? i guess the salt is enough to kill all the E Coli that causes the food poisoning including the deadly ones.

By: Bay_leaf

Bay_leaf — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:36:24 +0000

i love mussels, they also sell the big ones from NZ here, (frozen). as for the ones back home, i’m a bit cautious.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:10:54 +0000

I have never had problems with the New Zealand mussels so I suggest if you are conservative, buy the boxed or frozen new zealand mussels that are available here…try Yvan’s seafood at Salcedo, FTI and I think Lung Center on Sundays… they are more expensive, but very safe from my experience.

By: virgilio

virgilio — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:04:52 +0000

MM, after what I’ve written I will still try your recipe with the frozen NZ mussels I can get here. Thanks.

By: virgilio

virgilio — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:01:44 +0000

Talk of shellfish from unclean waters, a colleague at work and his wife went on hols recently in the Phils. and he came back solo. His wife and his mom-in-law are still home undergoing dialysis after a severe case of food poisoning caused by eating mussels. He got spared because he had one too many the night before and couldn’t bring himself up to eating anything the next day. The mussels were bought from a “tindera” peddling seashells in the village. But how could one really tell if the shellfish such as mussels one buys are from clean waters?

By: mojito_drinker

mojito_drinker — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:41:00 +0000

wow that looks great! any recommendations where we can buy good (clean) mussels here?

By: Wilson Cariaga

Wilson Cariaga — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:13:23 +0000

New Zealand mussels are good but what I remember the size is not consistent, well maybe we bought a bad brand/from a bad supplier. . .

this recipe is very nice too, well if you want to experiment with mussels, I think you can never go wrong.

did anybody try Dan’s misi/tausi, it is sold in some supermarkets in a small yellow plastic cup, I think it is a good quality product, ’cause it is not salty and beans are not crushed, please try it, and please correct me if I am wrong. . .