"Fish lips? Fish bladders?"
Marchello covered his forehead, no wonder he couldn't guess the true nature of those two ingredients because he had hardly ever eaten them.
One is a part of the fish's head, the other is fish's innards; normally a Western chef wouldn't think of going to a seafood market to deliberately pick up what is considered waste to cook, right?
Using chicken feet to boil soup is not a rare thing; many meat-based stocks add this ingredient to enhance the thickness and flavor of the broth.
He had seen small fish bladders at Lin Chen's restaurant, but bladders as large as the ones in the bowl, and even cut up, he simply hadn't connected them to that.
"Such expensive ingredients and so many types; your hotel owner really spares no expense."
He couldn't believe that such expensive soup would be sold at cost to the athletes; it must be in some form of sponsorship.
