鱼鳔菜园鸡汤 Chicken Soup with Fish Maw

ingredients:

a whole free-range chicken, clean and cut.

10 piece dried shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes).

5 piece deep-fried fish maw.

method :

saute some ginger in sesame seed oil...

put in the cut chicken, stir-fry till half-cooked...

transfer to a pot, put in  some 3 liter of water...

put in all mushroom and fish maw...

simmer for 1 - 2 hours.

鱼鳔 fish maw is the swim bladder of a fish that control buoyancy,

found only in ray-finned fish. 

It is usually sun-dried, then deep-fried before cook.

菜园鸡 ( Ayam kampung, in Malay language ) is free-ranch chicken,

are usually sold at higher price ( > 120 % ) than normal chicken.