drunken prawns

Peter Neville, author of The Rose of Singapore visited Singapore on his way back to USA from the Hong Kong International Literary Festival at which he was speaking. Peter lived in Singapore in the early 1950s and comes back regularly to feast on his favourite cuisine. But ... he'd never tried chili crab before so we took him to the East Coast to try bamboo clams with garlic, drunken prawns and chili crab. Delicious!

The prawns were brought live to the table in a glass bowl with a lid on. The cook then removed the lid to pour in the rice wine but four of the ten prawns saw their opportunity to escape and flipped themselves out of the bowl onto the table. The cook then had to keep the lid on the bowl while chasing the four prawns round the table. Peter was suitably shocked ...



Phil, Peter and Sandy...