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How Cooking Styles Can Affect Your Seafood’s Flavor?

Affect of Different cooking styles on seafood

When you go to a seafood restaurant, you first must consider how you want your seafood to be prepared. Maybe you still haven’t found out your favorite cooking style. It is good to know for everyone how each cooking style can affect the taste, texture, and experience of seafood dining. In this way, you can order your favorite seafood in your favorite cooking styles in a seafood-focused restaurant like Kan Eang at Pier.

Grilling

Grilling methods offer smoky flavors and criminalization on the exterior of the seafood. It creates a crispy exterior while maintaining the interior moist and flavorful. It involves using fewer added oils; instead, the seafood’s natural oil enhances flavor while grilling. Grilling is a good idea if you want to enjoy the natural flavor of the seafood. The grilling method can be used on many seafood dishes, but it is better for cooking firmer, oiler seafood such as lobster, shrimp, and scallops. You can pair grilled seafood with a flavorful glass of cocktail.

Grilled Scallops with Cheese
Grilled Scallops with Cheese

Steaming

The steaming method is one of the healthiest ways to cook seafood. It is cooked with steam without consuming any water and is good for delicate seafood that benefits from moisture retention and gentle cooking. It also prevents overcooking and ensures the seafood doesn’t dry out. It also enhances the natural flavor of seafood, resulting in juicy and flavorful meat. The steaming also helps maintain the natural flavors and nutrients of the seafood. You can eat the steamed seafood by squeezing the lemons on top of it and enjoy the well-rounded flavor.

Steamed Andaman Blue Crab
Steamed Andaman Blue Crab

Boiling

Unlike steaming, the boiling method uses water to transfer heat, but both steaming and boiling methods can make the natural flavor of the seafood shine. This method brings out the natural sweetness of seafood, creating a juicy and tender texture. Shrimps, crabs, and lobsters are perfect when eaten by boiling method because this method can cook them evenly and make the shells easier to crack. It also gives a clean flavor profile which is ideal for those who prefer their seafood without smoky or intense seasonings.

Boiled Fish Balls
Boiled Fish Balls

Frying

Like grilling methods, frying can create a crispy exterior with a tender interior, especially popular for enhancing flavor. There are many sub-cooking methods for frying such as stir-frying, deep-frying, pan-frying, and so on. Stir-frying is a method in which seafood is cooked at a high heat with minimal oil. It gives a light, tender texture to seafood.

In deep-frying, seafood is fully submerged in hot oil, cooking it evenly on all sides. When pan-frying, seafood is cooked in a shallow layer of oil in a frying pan.  It adds a satisfying crunch and rich flavor. Both deep-frying and pan-frying methods give a nice crust outside and a moist texture inside.

Deep Fried Red Snapper
Deep Fried Red Snapper

Baking

While trying baked seafood, you can taste a variety of seasonings and flavorings. This method allows for cooking evenly with a moist and tender. It takes a little more cooking time than other cooking methods. It is best for firm and fattier seafood or fish that can retain moisture during the cooking process. At Kan Eang, you can order king pawns and lobsters as baked seafood. There is an ancient cooking method that bakes with only salt which can enhance the natural flavors of the seafood without making it overly salty.

Baked King Prawns with Glass Noodle
Baked King Prawns with Glass Noodle

Beyond Cooking Styles 

In addition to cooking styles, cooking times and techniques are the important factors contributing to the overall taste and experience of seafood dishes. The specific techniques add a unique taste to your seafood dishes. However, you don’t need to worry about those if you are dining in a famous seafood restaurant like Kan Eang at Pier. Here, you just need to choose your favorite cooking styles, and the rest is on us. 

For example, if you are interested in ordering king prawns at Kan Eang at the pier, you need to choose cooking styles and ingredients such as fried with tamarind sauce or fried with garlic and pepper. After that, the restaurant’s professional chef will prepare the most delicious dish for you. If you want to ask more about the dish, you can ask our staff. Also, you can see what cooking styles will look like on the menu.

To eat the freshest and finest seafood in your favorite cooking style, come and enjoy Kan Eang at Pier. You will love the experience of dining with seafood here. The restaurant is family-friendly so don’t forget to bring your family and friends to enjoy together.