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Pad Thai
The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet — a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palm…
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Dinner
Louisiana Jambalaya
Louisiana rice cooked in one pot with the holy trinity, andouille sausage, chicken and prawns. The Creole version…
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Quick Meals
Nasi Goreng
Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…
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Lunch
Wonton Noodle Soup
Prawn and pork wontons in a clear, dried-flounder broth with springy thin egg noodles. Cantonese, and the noodles go…
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Napa Cabbage Kimchi
Napa cabbage salted, coated in a chilli and fermented seafood paste, and left to ferment until it fizzes. Two days…
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Dinner
Shrimp and Grits
Lowcountry breakfast turned into dinner: prawns in a bacon and stock pan sauce over grits cooked slowly with cream…
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Healthy
Tom Yum Goong
The hot-and-sour prawn soup that defines Thai cooking: lemongrass, galangal and lime leaf simmered into a broth…
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Gỏi Cuốn (Fresh Spring Rolls)
Rice paper rolls packed with prawns, pork, herbs and vermicelli, served cold with peanut dipping sauce. Nothing is…
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Dinner
Curry Laksa
Curry laksa: a coconut and spice paste soup with two kinds of noodle, prawns, tofu puffs and cockles, finished with…
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Dinner
Cioppino
San Francisco's Italian-American fishermen's stew — crab, clams, mussels, prawns and firm fish in a tomato and wine…
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Gambas al Ajillo
Prawns sizzled in olive oil with a great deal of garlic and dried chilli, served bubbling in the same dish with…
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Lunch
Wonton Soup
Silky wontons with a prawn and pork filling floating in a clear, restorative broth. The wrappers are so thin they…
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Dinner
Singapore Noodles
Thin rice vermicelli stained yellow with curry powder, tossed with prawns, char siu and egg. Despite the name it is…
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Dinner
Char Kway Teow
Flat rice noodles fried at ferocious heat with prawns, Chinese sausage, cockles, egg and chives. Judged entirely on…
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Chả Giò
Vietnamese fried spring rolls wrapped in rice paper rather than wheat wrappers, which gives a blistered, bubbly…
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Crispy Vegetable Tempura
Tempura batter should be lumpy, ice-cold and barely mixed — everything you would consider wrong in any other batter…
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Healthy
Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)
Green papaya pounded with garlic, chilli, lime, palm sugar and fish sauce in a clay mortar. Bruising rather than…
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Haemul Pajeon
A large, shaggy pancake of spring onions and seafood, fried until the edges are lacy and crisp. Eaten on rainy days…
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Lunch
Smørrebrød
Dense rye bread, buttered to the edges, built up with one main topping and a short list of things that agree with…
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Dinner
Pancit Canton
Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…
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Healthy
Gado-Gado
Blanched and raw vegetables, tofu, tempeh and boiled egg under a warm peanut sauce, with prawn crackers on top…
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Aguachile
Raw prawns cured in minutes in lime juice blitzed with green chilli and coriander, layered with cucumber and red…
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Dinner
Arroz de Marisco
Portuguese seafood rice, wetter than a paella and served in the pot, built on a tomato and coriander refogado with…
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Lo Bak Go
Grated daikon bound with rice flour and studded with dried shrimp, Chinese sausage and mushroom, steamed into a loaf…
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Toast Skagen
Prawns folded into dill mayonnaise with a squeeze of lemon, piled on a round of butter-fried bread and topped with…
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Chawanmushi
A savoury egg custard steamed in a lidded cup, holding prawn, chicken and ginkgo nuts suspended in a set so delicate…
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Dinner
Norwegian Fish Soup
Salmon and white fish poached at the last minute in a creamy soup built on fish stock, root vegetables and a splash…
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Dinner
Garlic Prawns with Courgette Noodles
Prawns cooked hard in garlic, chilli and olive oil, tossed through courgette ribbons that never see a pan — 38 g of…
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Quick Meals
Shrimp Scampi
Prawns, garlic, white wine, lemon and a great deal of butter, over linguine, in twenty minutes. The prawns come out…
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Garlic Butter Shrimp
Eight minutes from the fridge to the table. Prawns seared in a screaming pan, then finished in garlic butter with…
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Chilli Prawn Tacos
Prawns seared 90 seconds a side in a chilli and lime rub, with a crunchy cabbage slaw and a chipotle crema…
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Dinner
Sole Normande
Sole poached in cider and cream with mussels and prawns. Normandy, so cider and cream rather than wine and butter.
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Insalata di Mare
Squid, prawns and mussels dressed with nothing but lemon, oil, garlic and parsley. Every element cooked separately…
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Fritto Misto
Seafood dusted in semolina flour and fried for a minute. The coating is nearly invisible, which is the difference…
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Dinner
Cacciucco
Livorno's fish stew, with five kinds of fish for the five Cs in its name, over garlic-rubbed bread. Poor food that…
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Dinner
Brodetto all'Anconetana
The Adriatic answer to cacciucco, sharpened with vinegar instead of wine. Ancona claims thirteen kinds of fish and…
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Potted Shrimps
Tiny brown shrimps set in spiced butter and turned out on toast. Morecambe Bay has sent them south since the…
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Dinner
Fish Pie
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
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Har Gow
Crystal-skinned prawn dumplings with at least ten pleats, steamed until the wrapper turns translucent. The dish a…
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Siu Mai
Open-topped pork and prawn dumplings in a yellow wrapper, finished with a dot of roe. The other half of the dim sum…
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Cheung Fun
Sheets of rice batter steamed on a tray, rolled around prawns or beef and dressed in sweetened soy. The most…
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Dinner
Yangzhou Fried Rice
Fried rice with prawns, char siu and egg, where every grain is separate and coated in yolk. The version everything…
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Lunch
Zongzi
Glutinous rice packed with pork belly and salted egg yolk into a bamboo-leaf pyramid, tied with string and boiled…
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Lunch
Winter Melon Soup
Winter melon simmered with pork ribs and dried shrimp until it turns translucent and takes on everything around it…
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XO Sauce
Dried scallop and shrimp shredded and fried with chilli, ham and garlic until crisp. Invented in a Hong Kong hotel…
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Dinner
Prawn Masala
Prawns in a quick coastal gravy of onion, tomato and curry leaf. Thirty-five minutes, and the prawns cook in four of…
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Dinner
Ebi Fry
Panko prawns fried straight rather than curled, served with tartare. A Japanese diner classic and the reason for the…
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Quick Meals
Pad Woon Sen
Glass noodles tossed with egg, prawns and vegetables in a light soy dressing. Twenty-seven minutes and lighter than…
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Dinner
Bánh Xèo
A rice flour crêpe made yellow with turmeric, filled with pork and prawn and folded over beansprouts. It is torn up…
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Dinner
Hokkien Mee
Thick yellow noodles braised in dark soy with prawns, pork and cabbage until the sauce coats every strand. Kuala…
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Lunch
Shrimp Po Boy
Fried prawns in a light baguette with lettuce, tomato and remoulade. New Orleans, and "dressed" means all four.
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Dinner
Camarones a la Diabla
Prawns in a red chilli sauce hot enough to justify the name, made from soaked guajillo and chipotle. Thirty-five…
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