"Dish: Salt-Baked Shrimp There is no other dish in Houston like the salt-baked shrimp from Fung’s Kitchen. It features so much pomp and circumstance, like a massive guerdon cart with two big burners that get parked tableside. The intoxicating smell of roasting rock salt makes everyone in the restaurant stop and stare as if they will soon levitate after the wafting scent like a cartoon character. And, of course, the delicate transfer of thick, coral-red spot prawns into the scorching hot wok and the spooning of rock salt, like feeding a sauna. The delicate, sweet result combined with the charred salt and pepper scent tastes singular, as if dreamed up by Fung’s for you alone." - chelsea thomas
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