Scallops with Thai Spicy Cabbage Salad

The combination of Thai and Indonesian flavourings produces a fresh-tasting but very spicy salad that is particularly good served at room temperature with grilled scallops. The salad is very easy to make and, because of the high vinegar content, keeps for several days in the fridge.

Large scallops are hard to come by, as most of them are bought by restaurants or exported to France. Buy 3 medium-sized scallops per person, getting your fishmonger to open the shells and detac