在我的鼎鼐生涯中是经常摆弄燕窝的,学厨时多是作钳燕毛的活儿。当一包干制的白燕窝用温水浸泡了一宿后,翌日便涨发开来,一条条的像细银鱼般晶莹剔透,但里面有杂质。我拿着小镊子,细心地将杂质钳除。燕窝是金丝燕的巢儿,以纤细的羽毛、苔藓或海藻等混合金丝燕的唾液胶结在一起,风干后即成燕窝。所谓钳燕毛其实就是剔除杂物、只留金丝燕的唾 In my career Ding Ding is often fiddle with bird’s nest, learn kitchen mostly for the job of nippers. When a bag of dried white bird’s nest soaked in warm water for a night, the next day it rose up, a bar of silver fish like a crystal clear, but there are impurities. I took a small tweezers, careful impurity clamps. Bird’s nest is a swiftlet’s nest, with slender feathers, moss or algae and other mixed swiftlet saliva cement together, after drying into bird’s nest. The so-called clamp feather is actually removed debris, leaving only the swiftlet saliva