Name: Chow Har Look
Yield: Serves: 6
Cuisine: Trinidad & Tobago
Ingredients: 3 scallions, chopped, or 1 small bunch of chives, chopped; 2 pounds shrimp, shelled and deveined; 1 teaspoon coarse salt; 1 (2-inch) piece ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped; 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce; ¼ cup canola oil; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; ½ teaspoon hot pepper sauce, or to taste; Freshly ground black pepper to taste; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 teaspoon dark rum; 1 cup tomato sauce

Preparation info

Serves:
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Chinese food is as much a part of Trinidadian culture as East Indian or African dishes, though Trinidadians of Chinese descent are today relatively few in number and are largely mixed with the rest of the population. Like American Chinese food, many Trinidadian Chinese dishes, such as Chow Har Look (shrimp in tomato sauce), don’t exist back in China, but are hybrids of local taste and Chinese cooking methods.