Sliced Beef with Sesame Seeds

--- ----SLICED BEEF WITH SESAME SEED--------------- 450 g Beef shin

500 ml Bottle of Chinese spice

-sauce 1 1/2 ts Sesame seeds

Cooking oil 3 ts Sugar

1 1/2 ts Sesame oil

-----MARINADE----- 1 tb Fen Chiew Chinese wine (or

-Kao Liang Chiew, or sherry) 1 t Salt

2/3 ts Cinnamon powder

2/3 ts Star anise powder

1. ea Prepare the marinade and marinate beef shin for

24 hours.

2. ea Cook shin in boiling water for 10 minutes, then

remove. Simmer in the spice sauce for 75 minutes. (A special sauce would be prepared in the restaurant kitchen; bottled sauce is recommended for home-cooking purposes.) Remove, cool and freeze (for subsequent ease of slicing++ ideally with a slicing machine). 3. Stir-fry sesame seeds in a dry wok until they are

golden, and set aside. 4. Thinly slice frozen beef shin, and deep-fry in hot

oil over medium flame until crisp. 5. Melt the sugar in 2 tsp of water in another wok,

add beef slices and stir fry until no liquid is left. 6. Sprinkle sesame seeds and sesame oil over slices

while still hot. Gently mix and transfer to serving dish. From "Champion Recipes of the 1986 Hong Kong Food Festival". Hong Kong Tourist Association, 1986. Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; October 26 1992.