Cold Sliced Prawn with Five Kinds of Sauce

Name: Cold Sliced Prawn with Five Kinds of Sauce (Wu wei ming hsia p’ien)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 8 prawns (about 1-½ pounds); 2 slices ginger; 2 green onions; 1 tablespoon wine; ½ cup sweet and sour sauce; ½ cup sweet and sour sauce; ½ cup hot red pepper oil sauce; ½ cup mayonnaise sauce; ½ cup ginger vinegar sauce; ½ cup mustard sauce; 10 vermicelli sheets (made of green beans); 10 vermicelli sheets (made of green beans)

Wu wei ming hsia p’ien

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

8 prawns (about 1-½ pounds)
2 slices ginger
2</

Asia
Taiwan
Chungking
Shengtu
Sichuan
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Remove the black vein from prawn’s back, and cook prawns in 3 cups boiling water with ginger, green onions and wine, over high heat until done. When cool, remove heads and shells, and slice each prawn into 4 slices.
Cut vermicelli into ½ inch wide strips, scald in boiling water for about 5 seconds. Remove and rinse in cold water, drain dry. Mix with sesame oil