In the army now…

I think it was my blogger-friend, Merryn, who shared a photograph on Facebook of some prawns that she cooked. They looked quite big so I asked her how much they were per kilo. She did not know but she said that her hubby bought them, 16 prawns for around RM30.00. I thought that was pretty reasonable – here, it would be around RM40 a kilo and you will get around 20 big ones.

Well, I managed to get 2 kilos that day at RM38.00 a kilo…

…at a temporary fish & seafood stall by the side of the building where a food court that I used to frequent is located. The nice lady helped to pick out all the bigger ones for me and I was able to fill two tubs of this much, each of them, and I singled out those smaller ones to pack separately, cho liao (for ingredient) – to use when cooking vegetables, that is. In fact, I did use some when I cooked my sambal tumis bilis fried rice that day.

Well, it so happened that my missus said that my girl would like her to cook tom yam prawns the following day, Friday, so when I got up early the next morning, I took out one tub of the crustaceans, frozen in ice, to let it defrost. When it was done, I took two to cook this line of Korean instant noodles…

…that we had in the pantry.

I did come across this army stew thing at a Korean hotpot place here but we never got round to trying it – that place has since closed down.

Inside the  packet, besides the noodles, there were two sachets…

…one with the seasoning and one with the dry ingredients.

I boiled the prawns and cooked an egg to serve with the noodles…

…which I thought was very nice but it was rather spicy. Yes, the ladies did say it was spicy but it was not one of the “killers” that they had had before. Gosh!!! I do not think I would enjoy anything spicier than this one – that would be absolute torture, I’m sure!

Just like the other one that I had that day, I found the texture of the noodles different from our regular instant noodles, firmer and smoother and not so soft and this one also had those bits of what looked meat to me, three of them…

My guess was those were probably vegetarian mock meat, not the real thing.

Well, I would not mind having a go at this again should I happen to see any sitting in the pantry but I sure would not want to go out and buy. I am quite certain that it, like anything and everything Korean, does not come cheap.