Asian fish and stir fry adventure!

Last weekend I ventured into a random southeast asian food market near Elgin, IL, where there's a significant Laotian population. I picked up a few unfamiliar ingredients and decided to put something together. Here's what I got:

*gailan (also known as Chinese broccoli)
*baby bok choy (it was curiously labeled "shan h choy" but I couldn't find anything about that while Googling it)
*golden pompano fish (purchased frozen)
*rice vermicelli noodles
*chili basil paste



I grilled the fish for about 5-6 minutes a side after thawing it out. Separately I stir fried the bok choy and gailan with olive oil, soy sauce, and added the cooked noodles and chili paste until the ingredients were balanced and well cooked.


When the fish was done I served it for a great meal accompanied with San Miguel beer, a lager brewed in the Phillipines but popular in Spain where I spent my 19 year-old summer!

The fish was incredible and the vegetable stir fry good; the paste, however, was a bit strong and I may simply stir with my own sauce from scratch next time!