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Chinese Fried Shrimp Balls Recipe | Dim Sum Thursdays | Wally Cooks Everything

My Chinese fried shrimp ball recipe is very close to one of my favorite dim sum restaurants in NYC called Hop Shing (now closed)....

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In a bowl, combine shrimp, garlic, white pepper, salt, light soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, shaoxing wine, cornstarch, and neutral oil. Mix in one direction until a paste forms. Optional but recommended: chill the mixture for 20 minutes in the freezer to firm up the paste.
Some prefer to soak seafood in milk before cooking to keep it from tasting too fishy.
Mix flour with the salt, pepper, Cajun seasoning and Old Bay. Beat the egg, melted butter and milk together, add 1/2 cup of the seasoned flour and stir well to blend. Dip the shrimp into the flour, then batter, allowing batter to drain off well and then back into the flour.
Shrimp paste or prawn sauce is a fermented condiment commonly used in Southeast Asian and Coastal Chinese cuisines. It is primarily made from finely crushed shrimp or krill mixed with salt, and then fermented for several weeks.
digestive tract. The black line on the top of a shrimp is its digestive tract, so yes, that's poop you can see. It's safe to eat, but in general people tend to prefer their shrimp deveined, i.e. with the digestive tract removed, because the tract can have a bitter taste and a sandy texture.