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I need to find a recipe for %26quot;Crispy Shrimp in Spicy Salt.%26quot; I have seen it on many Chinese Restaurant menus but no actual recipe. It%26#39;s essentially a lightly battered shrimp with garlic and hot green peppers and salt. Can you find it? I have searched all the food websites, as well as google%26#39;d it. It needs to be a battered shrimp. Some crispy shrimp recipes don%26#39;t have the batter, which is very light and important.
Hi bagelfairy! Your question has made me hungry again, even though I just had dinner. I thought you were supposed to get hungry an hour *after* eating Chinese food? Finding the *exact* recipe that you have in mind could be difficult, as no two Chinese restaurants prepare a given dish in exactly the same way. Like many other styles of cooking, Chinese cooking varies widely by both the region and the cook. Hot and sour soup, for example, is made with a thin consistency broth, teensy slivers of vegetables and meat, and enough spice and vinegar to clear the sinuses of the people across the room from me at my favorite place (perfect!), but has the consistency and overall flavor of plain brown gravy at another place I occasionally go to. That said, I think I%26#39;ve got your recipe. SUM CHOI%26#39;S CRISPY SHRIMP 2 Bunches Choi Sum 1 lb Whole Shrimp 1 c Corn Starch 1 T Garlic Salt or Powder 1 T Onion Powder Pinch of Black Pepper 10 Cloves of Garlic 1 stick of Butter or Margarine SAUCE: 1 T Ko Chu Jung 1 T Oyster 1 T Shoyu 2 T Sugar 1 T Vinegar Combine corn starch, garlic salt or powder, onion powder, and black pepper. Pat shrimp dry and roll into powder mixture then refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours. Deep fry shrimp till golden brown. Saute garlic in butter. Set 1 T aside to combine with sauce. Stir-fry choi sum in remaining garlic butter sauce. Compine 1 T of garlic butter with %26quot;sauce%26quot; ingredients. Set shrimp on bed of stir-fried choi sum and drizzle sauce mixture. You can find this recipe here: Sam Choy on KFVE-TV, Hawaii http://www.suresave.com/SamRecipes/2000/SC_Recipe_Nov4.html Just to make sure, I rang up Lu, the proprietor of my favorite local Chinese restaurant - I%26#39;ve been a regular for years, and her son happens to be my nephew%26#39;s best friend, so she%26#39;ll occasionally talk shop with me. I asked if this was how she prepared %26quot;Crispy Shrimp in Spicy Salt%26quot;, and she said yes, it is, with a minor variation - she also finely minces green chile peppers, and adds them to the pan of butter just before the garlic is completely cooked. It%26#39;s important to make sure that you add the chiles very close to the end of the garlic%26#39;s cooking time, so you don%26#39;t lose the pepper%26#39;s zesty flavor. That confirmed my suspicion. So here is the recipe you%26#39;re looking for. If it turns out that this is *not* what you%26#39;re after, please do ask for clarification. I am the happy owner of two long shelves stuffed with cookbooks (including the CIA cookbook) and recipe files, I will gladly dig through them for you to find the perfect fit. Can I come over for dinner? ;) Happy cooking! missy-ga %26lt;--well fed food fan Search terms: [ %26quot;crispy shrimp%26quot; +recipe ] ...and a bit of cook%26#39;s instinct