[Sca-cooks] Things that are like other things (WAS RE: Okay, it's that time again...)

[Mike C. Baker]

> Cantonese bacon-wrapped shrimp are a relative of the standard 
> modern Chinese-American Butterfly Shrimp with Bacon, but also 
> of a variety of stuffed seafood dishes that involve a 
> shellfish of some sort (say, an oyster), sitting in a black 
> mushroom cap, topped with a stuffing suitable for wontons or 
> other filled dumplings, wrapped in caul fat, rolled in 
> cornstarch or dipped in batter, and deep-fried. One variant 
> is a large shrimp, split and butterflied, filled with a 
> wonton-type stuffing mixture, wrapped in either caul fat or 
> bacon, rolled in cornstarch, and deep-fried.

Have had a variation on this recently, labeled as "stuffed shrimp".  But
that did not include the mushroom cap or bacon wrapping.  (There were
other items on the same "Chinese" buffet that involved stuffed mushrooms
or bacon wrapping, some dredged through a flour or some type of grain
meal.)

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