Cullen skink Cullen skink Cullen skink is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie, but it may be prepared with any other undyed smoked haddock. This soup is a local speciality, from the town of Cullen in Moray, on the north-east coast of Scotland. The soup is often served as a starter at formal Scottish dinners. Cullen skink is widely served as an everyday dish across the northeast of Scotland. Local recipes for Cullen skink have several slight variations, such as the use of milk instead of water or the
Fish soup bee hoon shallots, and fish roe. For the vegetarian version of the dish, fish meat is substituted with tofu. The fish is boiled and added to a bowl of fish soup. The fish may also be fried. The soup is boiled for about twenty minutes, though a broth made from fish or pork bones boiled for several hours is sometimes used as a base. The dish is served hot. Grace Chen of "The Star" writes that fish soup bee hoon is "to Singaporeans what the char kway teow is to Penangites". Catherine Ling of "CNN" describes fish soup bee hoon as one