MOCK FISH BUDDHIST

      Title: MOCK FISH BUDDHIST
  Categories: Vegetarian, Chinese
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
       1 lg Potato; cooked, peeled
            -and sliced 1/4 inch thick
       2 tb Flour
            Peanut oil; for frying
       1 sm Onion; sliced
     1/2 lb Snow peas
      10    Wood ears; soaked to soften,
            - tough ends removed,
            - cut in slivers
     1/2 ts Salt
     1/2 ts Sugar
     1/3 c  Water
  
       Sprinkle potatoes with flour and deep-fry until golden.
    Drain and set aside. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the oil,
   reheat an add onion. Stir-fry 10 seconds and add snow peas and wood
   ears. Stir-fry another 10 seconds and add salt, sugar and water.
   Bring to rapid boil, stirring constantly, and cook until peas are
   just tender crisp. Add reserved fried potato slices, heat through and
   serve.
       Wood ears are a type of mushroom or shelf fungus. When soaked it
   has a crunchy, gelatinous texture with little taste. If you can't
   find them, I imagine that you could use the dried mushrooms although
   they wouldn't give exactly the same effect. A closer substitute would
   be dried jellyfish, but if you're some- where that sells dried
   jellyfish, I'm sure that they have wood ears as well...
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