Prawns roasted with vermicelli noodles (gung op wun sen) | You’ll see this dish all over Bangkok’s Chinatown, where it is made with large prawns and cooked in metal pots that can withstand the constant and heated demands of the lines of hungry customers. I find the dark, crunchy part of the noodles that sticks to the bottom of the pot is the best part.
Garlic prawns (gambas al pil pil) | Buy a terracotta cazuela dish to cook this classic prawn dish in and master the recipe. You’ll look great and friends will never come down with colds! Cooking anything in a cazuela will give it that special Spanish "something". The smaller clay dishes can be used on the stove to make recipes such as this, the larger ones to bake meat on the bone until it is really tender or to gently cook vegetable dishes.