Just came back from the Steveston. They did have a lot of shrimp on sale. I did not see any 50 cents one. However we did buy the 7 pounds for 5 dollars one. We were going to use it to cook Shrimp noodle soup. The main ingredient for that was the shrimp head.
It cook us 1.5 hours to peer the shell of all the shrimp. What a big job. I will post the recipe later if anyone is interested.
I got there around 10:30 and they were already opened and in the evening, fewer boat stores open and thus less choice.
By the way, I cook the shrimps the article suggested and the shrimps tasted pretty good.
I used the shrimp head to cook the Hokkien Shrimp Noodle soup.
It's pretty.
1. Use the shrimp head and pork bone to cook the soup base first. I cook it for more than 6 hours. The more shrimp head the merrier.
2. Buy the pre-packaged Hokkien Shrimp noodle paste and pour it in.
3. You can add a lot of ingredient such as fish cake (the one across street from Public Market sells good fish cake, I can give you company name so you can get extra 10% off), bean sprout, eggs, pork meat, ..
4. Malaysian always eat with two kinds of noodle, Mee Fan and Oil noodle.