How to make delicious congee shop side dishes of poached beef and offal

Many congee specialist shops have a short menu of snacks, in case customers want something more substantial than rice soup. The snacks include fried wonton, fried fish balls with salted clam sauce, fried noodles with soy sauceand a variety of poached fish, meats and offal. The poached dishes sound dull compared with the fried ones, but they are subtly delicious.

Poached beef and bean sprouts with fried garlic and shallots

This dish takes only about half an hour to cook, and most of that time…