#Dried Shrimp

[buffetlicious]

Whether you called this Hae Bee Hiam Roll (虾米卷) or mini prawn roll, they are equally addictive to snack on. They are filled with minced hae bee (dried shrimps) cooked with a variety of spices and individually hand rolled before deep-frying in oil. The mini rolls are super crispy with a spicy umami dried shrimps filling. They are available all year round in Singapore but just seems to taste that much better during Chinese New Year. :D Shown on the right is Vegan Prawn Rolls so everyone can still share the joy of snacking on it.

[astrobei]

I GOT A FISH

[swpdz000]

[REDACTED] the Fortune Teller

Rumor has it there's a student who only appears at night in the library who gives strange predictions.

"Sophie" or "Vincent" is an aloof and quiet schoolmate of the player. They can only be found inside the library after 9PM when the player edits their save files. "Sophie" can assist the player with strangely specific predictions, allowing the player to know what will happen in the next few hours. Their names and gender might change the next time the player meets them, assuming there's a next time. At 40% love, "Sophie" might appear out of nowhere to warn the player if their next action is deemed dangerous.

[worldsewage]

I love food. Big fan of food. am I consistently and constantly hungry. Food is the best thing. Wow. Can’t believe I live on a planet where I can eat and taste. I can bring food for my friends. I can slice it in half. I can make an ugly bacon egg sandwich just for me. I can reheat food. I can melt cheese on chips. I can give my friends the black licorice jelly beans. I can give my cat a tiny piece of chicken from my bowl. I can cook food. I can season grilled foods spicy in separate batches for my friends with a low spice tolerance. Wow. You can eat . you should eat. I love a burger.

[asteralien]

my asexual ass making garlic bread for valentine's day dinner......... this goes beyond stereotype into self-fulfilling prophecy

[eat-love-eat]

One pan shrimp, broccoli & sun dried tomato Pasta

[skippygoldfish]

Here's most of my isopods, taken yesterday. I had taken out the wood pieces and tapped the bugs into a container so I could stir and pat down the dirt and set everything back up. I don't know anything about isopod morphs or genetics, and they're just wild caught, but I assume most of them are what people call calico?

also today i put in some chioggia beet scraps for them to try heehee

[delicious-in-kitchen]

Creamy Garlic Shrimp Pasta by Eat Well 101

[strigops]

fear im cultivating a taste for flesh in my beetles as i just introduced them to dried shrimp and minnows the other day (which they went absolutely bugshit for) and i let judy come over to sniff me as i usually do when she walks up to my hand, except this time she Firmly Grasped my finger in her little front legs, turned her head sideways, and very slowly proceeded to attempt to shear a tasty piece of my finger off with her (shockingly pointy) mandibles. just CHOMPED on the side of my finger. girl why. i just washed my hands so you WOULDNT do that

[sparrowsingsstories]

My neighbor has ducks. Like, an entire flock of female ducks. These ducks know us - our cars, our schedules, what we look like. They make happy duck noises at us. They think we're part of the flock.

This means I am now buying them mealworms. Obviously, we have to FEED these ducks.

The neighbors thank us profusely. They love that we feed them.

All this to say, my 5 pound bag of mealworms is being delivered today and it's the Best Day Ever.

[buffetlicious]

The lazy Susan was quickly filled with dishes as we continued with our reunion dinner. The Prawn Paste Chicken (虾酱鸡) featured plump and juicy mid-wings coated in a batter of fermented shrimp paste. Also known as Har Cheong Gai, it is crispy with an umami aftertaste and a hit with young and old.

The stir-fried French Bean with Dried Shrimp (虾米四季豆) might look deceptively plain but plain and simple it is not! The string beans or green beans is flash-fried with minced hae bee (dried shrimps) to absorb the wok hei (wok thermal radiation or breath of the wok) yet maintained the crunchy texture and aroma of the sea (dried shrimp). This dish was one of the highlights of the dinner.

My nephew asked for this Fried Rice with Chicken (鸡丁炒饭) as he preferred it over the steamed white rice the rest of us are having. The Yam Ring (佛钵飘香) featured a ring of deep-fried mashed yam (taro) and filled with sautéed seafood such as prawn, squid and also various vegetables. Normally one would also find cashew nuts in it, but I didn’t notice any this time. Plating is done haphazardly as the chef just poured everything into the yam ring. If I will to do it, I would place the vegetables at the bottom and present the seafood on top with a sprinkle of crunchy cashew nuts over it. Anyway, dish is passable but not fantastic in taste and an “F” for presentation.

Popeye’s power booster canned vegetable is reimagined into Spinach with Trio Eggs (三皇苋菜). To enhance the power, three kinds of egg are used – normal chicken egg, preserved century egg and salted duck egg. Finally, the eyes is also protected with goji berry or wolfberry added into the thick soup. With all the above ingredients used, how can a vegetable soup like this not be good for you?

Fish Maw & Crab Meat Soup (蟹肉鱼鳔羮) is the most expensive dish of the night at S$45 (large portion) due to the two premium ingredients. The thickened soup is chocked with the spongy fish maw, succulent crab meat and I also detected mushrooms in there. Before eating, drizzle a few drops of the black vinegar and add a dash of white pepper.

The Emperor Chicken (皇帝鸡) is also known as herbal chicken. In the olden days, the emperor’s diet was strictly prescribed and monitored by physicians, because it was important for the emperor to be in excellent health in order to focus on governing the Kingdom. This was one of the healthy dishes the emperor ate! The chicken is wrapped in the waxed paper and aluminum foil then steamed for a few hours until the meat is tender and the flavours of the herbs is infused into the chicken.

The last dish to be served is the Poached Prawns (白灼虾). If the ingredients are fresh, you just need minimum condiments and simple cooking style to bring out the best in taste. So here the prawns are boiled in basically water, ginger and scallion for a couple of minutes at most. Chinese cooking wine is then drizzled into the broth to enhance the overall flavours.

For this reunion meal, we spent S$331.76 for the dishes, steamed rice and drinks including 10% service charge. I can foresee the next year we will be back here for our dinner again. After all the food is good and the place is nearby our houses.

[sikfankitchen]

Cheung Fun 肠粉 | Chinese Rice Noodle Rolls with Dried Shrimps & Green Onions

[dragpinkman]

i found one of my shrimp dead behind my lidded fishtank on the floor????? how the fuck, poor guy :(

[chordsykat]

🌈

🌈is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

God, not trying to give too much away, but Issue 6 of Dethkomic is going to be a full-on brawl. Or it felt like one. Soooooo much foreshortening of body parts while punching and kicking and smacking people with guitars. That's always hard to pull off :D

Writing Cherry's final scenes in Dethkomic I of course. I had to take several moments. And then I had to take several more moments when Janet Strickland showed up at the end.

But really, when it comes to "hard to pull off and you would never guess..?" It's a tie:

The scene at the meeting room was hard because in order for that joke to pop off, I had to manage a shit-ton of characters talking, basically overtop of one another and all at once, while landing a multi-part joke coming from all sides of the fucking room. It was clear as day that I'd cut all over the place and be done with it, were this an animated show, but pulling it off in a comic was less clear. Plus, the delivery of the lines was also riding on the captions doing a lot of the work, so I had to find room for them, as well. A real bitch, but one I was quite happy with, in the end.

The other page here, with Toki's Sea Goofballs -- gee-golly, I don't imagine you would guess the headaches I went through unless you were intimately familiar with translating writing to comic book format. He flies in the room, the point being that we see he's still doing his best to avoid coming into contact with anyone, and the scene (which had just transferred over into Mordhaus' living room from the last page) goes right into Toki's room, where he finds his Goofballs dead. Then somehow, I gotta get that to carry back over into the living room again so we can see Nathan struggling to write. This kind of thing is, once again, easier to pull off in animation, but is kinda whiplash-y for a comic. The solution was to have Nathan telling Pickles to STFU in a quick one-line panel (and we see Toki running, not far off, behind him), cut to Toki's room, then cut back to Skwisgaar with snide commentary on his boyfriend's screaming. But my GOD did it take me a while to figure out how this one was gonna lay out. Hot damn.

Another good one!

Original prompt list is here!

[paulpingminho]

[birdmenmanga]

what is this fucking apology note

"Hello,

A few nights ago I disturbed your sleep in the early AMs and I wanted to apologize. In the future I will pay more attention to my volume, especially late at night. Please accept this bag of dried mangoes as recompense.

-Room 3A"