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Crispy Eggplant With Fish Fragrant Sauce

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Crispy Eggplant with Fish Fragrant Sauce on a platter.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Lillian Chou

This dish was created by one of my old sous chefs, Victor Liong, after he ate at Dainty Sichuan in Melbourne. Fish fragrant sauce doesn’t actually have any fish in it, but the sweet, sour, and spicy elements in the sauce are traditionally used to cook Sichuan fish dishes, and it gives this dish its name.

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