Chinese Dish- Silverfish & Chives Fried Eggs

Silverfish & chives fried eggs is one of my favorite mid-night snack dish along with plain congee, spicy cold shrimps, stir fried clams, etc... Now I'm craving for those dishes!! When I was younger, my parents would take us out to Chinese restaurants late at night and would order these dishes. Delicious! but that was a long time ago...so its been a while since I last had them. T___T... but over the Christmas holidays, my sister came to visit us from the states and we started talking about mid-night snack dishes that we used to have. We were gonna go together but something happened and we ended up not going. She flew back home the next day. Before she left though, she bought me some silverfish from the grocery store so that I can make some fried eggs with them...haha. Thanks! so I bought some yellow chives and made some fried eggs for dinner the day after.

It was not bad! Although it can't be compared to the restaurant ones (I don't have a gas range and a wok) but still not bad! This dish is very simple to make...and the most important thing is pan fry at medium heat to make sure the fish is cooked. I chose to use yellow chives instead of the green nira chives was because I remembered the restaurant ones were yellow chives. You can use nira chives if you want for more color, etc.

Silverfish & Chives Fried Eggs

Servings: 3 - 4

Ingredients:

6 eggs

60g yellow chives

3/4 - 1lb silverfish

White pepper & Salt to taste

Optional: Maggi seasoning sauce to taste

Directions:

1. Put silverfish in a strainer and rinse/wash the silverfish gently. Leave in strainer to dry.

2. Wash yellow chives and cut in 1/2" pieces.

3. Beat 6 eggs in a bowl. Add yellow chives and silverfish. Gently mix them together with a chopstick. Add a couple dashes of white pepper and salt. Mix. 

4. Turn the heat on high. Let it heat up. Add a bit of cooking oil. Turn down to medium heat and add 1/3 of the egg mixture into the pan. Make sure the pan is evenly covered with eggs and silverfish. Try not to overlap the fish. Let the eggs mixture cook till the edges are cooked.

5. Flip the eggs over carefully with a spatula. Leave the eggs to cook. After a few minutes, flip the eggs over again to see if its nicely done. Remove the eggs from the pan when the eggs are slightly golden brown. Repeat the cooking process till the egg mixture are cooked.

Done! For more flavors, drizzle some Maggi seasoning sauce on top of the eggs.