Looking for foods to try and share a bit of my own culture. My family is cantonese viet and I grew up eating in a lot of traditional banquet hall restaurants. Usually these are dim sum menu for lunch and traditional shared foods for dinner. Most people have tried the common ones like siu mai (pork wrapper dumpling) and haw gow (shrimp rice dumpling) but my favorites are the uncommon ones like ngau zaap (beef offal) and baak wan fung zaau (pickled chicken feet).
Ngau zaap is basically braised brown sauce using off cuts, usually stomach and whatnot, with chinese radish. Its very savory, kinda like if you made an asian gravy.
Baak wan fung zaau is just chicken feet pickled in white vinegar. If you had pickled radish it’s essentially the same pickling and the chicken feet is gelatinous and a bit crunchy. You can also get them sometimes boneless since eating around the bones is kinda a pain. I really like pickled foods so this is one of my faves
The alcohol in the batter burns off during cooking. But if you’re still opposed to using it, substitute club soda.
The flavour of the fish is extremely important. Cod, haddock or halibut are the only acceptable options, anything else isn’t fish and chips. Personally I always go haddock. But I also find that when people say it tastes bland it’s because they’re treating the salt and vinegar as optional; they’re not. That’s like sushi without wasabi. Liberally season the finished result with both. Not just the chips, the fish too. And it must be malt vinegar. Do not substitute.
The issue not with the alcohol i might consume when i eat it, the issue lies with…what the heck am i supposed to do with the rest of the beer after cooking fnc, i sure as hell won’t drink it.