Chili shrimp

Chili shrimp (simplified Chinese: 干烧明虾; traditional Chinese: 乾燒明蝦; pinyin: gān shāo míngxiā or simplified Chinese: 明虾; traditional Chinese: 明蝦; pinyin: míngxiā) is a dish of stir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce in Chinese cuisine. It is a part of Sichuan and Shanghai cuisines.

Chili shrimp
Place of originChina
Region or stateSichuan, Shanghai
Main ingredientsstir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce

In Japanese Chinese cuisine, ebi-chiri (Japanese: エビチリ) is derived from Shanghai-style Szechuan cuisine. It consists of stir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce. It has a history in Japan. According to the Iron Chef TV series, prawns in chili sauce was invented by Chen Kenmin, father of Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi.

In Korean Chinese cuisine, chili shrimp is called kkansyo-saeu (Korean: 깐쇼새우), a named consisting of the word kkansyo derived from Chinese gān shāo (乾燒) and saeu meaning "shrimp" in Korean, or chilli-saeu (Korean: 칠리새우) with the English-derived word chilli.

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