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Ingredients
  • subheading: PRAWNS:
  • 300g/ 10oz prawns/shrimp , peeled with tail on (600g/1.2lb whole unpeeled) (Note 1)
  • ½ tsp kosher/cooking salt (halve for table salt)
  • subheading: DREDGING:
  • ½ cup cornflour/cornstarch
  • subheading: ULTRA-CRISPY FRY BATTER:
  • 9 tbsp cornflour/cornstarch (Note 2)
  • 6 tbsp flour , plain/all-purpose
  • ½ tsp baking powder (NOT baking soda)
  • ½ tsp salt , kosher/cooking (halve for table salt)
  • ⅔ cup + 1 tbsp COLD soda water, club soda or seltzer water (NOT sparkling mineral water, Note 3)
  • subheading: OIL, FOR FRYING:
  • 3 to 4 cups vegetable or canola oil (~4cm / 1.5" depth in a pot)
  • subheading: HONEY SAUCE (NOTE 8 ON SWEETNESS):
  • ⅓ cup (100g) honey
  • 1.5 tbsp (25g) glucose OR corn syrup (light) (Note 4)
  • 1 tbsp light soy sauce (or all-purpose)
  • 2 tsp Chinese cooking wine (or mirin)
  • subheading: GARNISH / SERVING:
  • 25g / 2 oz Vermicelli rice noodles (optional) , a wad of it (not mung bean noodles, it must be rice noodles)
  • Sesame seeds, finely sliced green onions
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