This spread of chilled cooked prawns with prawn dipping sauces comes together quickly but should be leisurely enjoyed, guests peeling their own prawns and dunking them into dipping sauces or piling them onto warm buttered bread or garlic toast. Provide lime or lemon wedges for squeezing onto the prawns, finger bowls of water and napkins, … Read more
This speedy shrimp dip recipe makes a rich and creamy dip inspired by the retro prawn cocktail appetiser. Peeled cooked prawns are sliced into chunky pieces and stirred into a classic seafood sauce thickened with crème fraiche. Serve with crinkle cut crisps, Jatz crackers, homemade croutons, or round cucumber slices for scooping it up. If … Read more
This quick and easy recipe for prawn cocktail brioche buns takes the classic prawn cocktail and assembles the retro appetiser on sweet brioche buns to create deliciously simple shrimp sliders. Peeled cooked prawns coated in a classic seafood sauce are arranged on a bed of mini cos leaves and garnished with fresh fragrant dill. Serve … Read more
This quick and easy Russian crab salad recipe makes a nostalgic Soviet-era crab stick salad that’s one of the most popular Russian salads over Christmas-New Year. Starting out in life as a salad of fresh crab and mayonnaise, canned crab was later used until imitation crab or kanikama was invented in Japan in 1974. While … Read more
Where to eat in Chinatown Bangkok overwhelmed us on our first visit to the Thai capital over 25 years ago. There were a bewildering number of eating options then and there are even more now, from old-school seafood restaurants to lane-way noodle joints and glam shop-house fine-diners. If you also find the Chinatown eating options … Read more