Amazon
Baja Precious Rice Bran Gallon
From video: CNY Perfect Cantonese Steamed Fish in Superior Soy Sauce 港式清蒸鱼Chinese Fish Recipe | Hong Kong Style
Published: January 31, 2026
Video Description
Celebrate Chinese New Year with this classic steamed whole fish in superior soy sauce, a symbolic dish representing abundance, prosperity and good fortune. In this video, we’ll show you a clear, reliable method to achieve tender, flaky fish with beautifully fragrant aromatics and a glossy soy-based finish, using simple ingredients and traditional techniques suitable for home cooks. To make things even easier, we’ve included a helpful table below showing the correct steaming time based on the weight of your whole fish, so you can get perfect results every time whether you’re cooking for family or hosting a festive reunion dinner. Try making this dish at home and happy cooking!
#steamedfish #chinesefishrecipes #chinesedinner #chinesenewyeardishes
See the ingredient list below for your easy reference. We hope you can recreate this yummy recipe in the comfort of your home.
----------
Thanks for dropping by our channel. Please subscribe to stay tuned to our home cooking videos.
Stalk us!
Youtube: www.youtube.com/spicenpans
Facebook www.facebook.com/spicenpans/
Instagram www.instagram.com/spicenpans
TikTok www.tiktok.com/spicenpans
Website: www.spicenpans.com
Join our Facebook cooking group to interact with like-minded home cooks www.facebook.com/groups/spicenpans
Thanks for watching!
----------
CNY Perfect Cantonese Steamed Fish in Superior Soy 港式清蒸鱼Chinese Fish Recipe
Serves 3-4 (in a multi-dish meal)
Ingredients
Preparing the fish for steaming
1 spring onion (white stem part only), to be used as a base for the fish
500g (17.64 oz) whole fish (such as grouper, coral trout, sea bass or pomfret), descaled, butterflied and thoroughly cleaned until all traces of blood are removed, with the flesh lightly scored
4–5 slices young ginger
(Watch how to butterfly fish video: https://youtu.be/l1EnrG6w7SY?si=RVH-5-1MllxInw5i)
For the sauce
5g (0.18 oz) young ginger, julienned
4 tbsp water
4 tbsp light soy sauce
⅓ tsp chicken stock powder
½ tsp sugar (or to taste - we added 1 tsp in total)
½ tbsp Chinese cooking wine (Shaoxing Huatiao wine)
For the garnish
Some spring onions, shredded and curled (Watch how to make curled spring onion video: https://youtu.be/VjdkVeo_Ypg?si=WuTxIJwzCY-ldUnA)
1-1½ tbsp cooking oil, heated until smoking hot
Steaming time by fish weight (whole fish) and serving size cheat sheet
Fish Weight | Non-Butterflied Steaming | Butterflied Steaming | Serves*
500g | 8–9 min | 6–7 min | 3–4
600g | 9–10 min | 7–8 min | 3–4
700g | 10–11 min | 8–9 min | 4
800g | 11–12 min | 9–10 min | 4
900g | 12–13 min | 10–11 min | 4–5
1.0kg | 13–14 min | 11–12 min | 4–5
1.2kg | 15–16 min | 13–14 min | 5–6
1.5kg | 18–20 min | 15–17 min | 6–7
2.0kg | 22–25 min | 18–20 min | 7–8
*Notes
Servings assume the fish is served with 3–4 other dishes. If serving more or fewer dishes, adjust the fish weight accordingly.
Edible meat assumes ~50–60% of the whole fish weight.
If it’s part of a multi-dish meal, each person usually eats ~60–80 g of fish.
If the fish is the main protein, you might allow 100 g per person.
For thicker-bodied fish (grouper, sea bass), lean toward the longer end of the timing.
----------
Don't know where to get the ingredients or what they look like? Click the links below, but the brands featured here may not be the ones we used for this video.
Light soy sauce https://amzn.to/3D4KcIL
Chicken stock powder https://amzn.to/4jok2BA
Cooking oil https://amzn.to/448ZpD8
Chinese cooking wine https://amzn.to/4qja7je
----------
Want to buy the kitchen tools like the ones we used in the video? Check out what we found online that you might like:
Cast iron wok https://amzn.to/4jnbmLG
----------
If you like this recipe, you might like these too:
Perfect for Chinese New Year! Cabbage Rolls w/ Braised Mushrooms 焖菇白菜卷 CNY Reunion Dinner Recipe
https://youtu.be/d4db3JpIAz8?si=WDAunaBVjtnXuY6J
The Easiest Thai Fish Maw Soup Ever with Abalone! 泰式鲍鱼鱼鳔汤 Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner Recipe
https://youtu.be/FQ7kmBXRohQ?si=xDoIJp46NVnCCn_U
Granny's Pen Cai Recipe Revealed! Prosperity Treasure Pot 阿嘛发财好煲 Chinese New Year CNY 盆菜 Recipe
https://youtu.be/fJgiVze2mO0?si=ubnVhhhKjwOHPqFR
----------
Spice N' Pans has no association with some of the products listed here and cannot guarantee their quality. We've included these links for your convenience. We can only stand by the brand of products we used in the video, which we highly recommend you purchase. Even so, preferences can be subjective. Please buy at your own risk. Some of the links provided here may be affiliate links, but they are important since they help fund this channel, allowing us to continue offering you new recipes. Cheers!
----------
Carefree Melody by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/302/carefree-melody
Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org