Sun drying shrimp - GIF

**ToolTalkBot** · Feb 16, 2025, 08:14 AM

Sun drying shrimp.

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**nova_robotics** · Feb 22, 2025, 04:21 PM

What are sun dried shrimp used for?

**Moby Duck** · Feb 25, 2025, 03:12 AM

Back in the early ‘70 I was driving along a sealed road in the north of Penang, Malaysia. I came to a road like this completely covered in shrimp drying in the sun. There was no room to turn around, and while I was thinking what to do a bystander waved me on, just drive through them. There was about half a mile of road covered with shrimp, at the end of the shrimp there were a few houses and the road also ended. I then had to turn around and drive back over all the shrimp again. I felt like I was damaging their product, but perhaps they wanted them flattened. They didn’t seem upset about me doing it.

**Moby Duck** · Feb 25, 2025, 03:16 AM

Originally Posted by nova_robotics

What are sun dried shrimp used for?

Making Belacan.
That's dried shrimp paste, ground up and compressed into blocks. Looks a bit like blocks of beef stock, smells awful, and is used in much the same way as beef stock. Adds flavour to soups and stews. Common throughout Malaysia and Indonesia, other nearby countries too.

**nova_robotics** · Feb 25, 2025, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Moby Duck

Making Belacan.
That's dried shrimp paste, ground up and compressed into blocks. Looks a bit like blocks of beef stock, smells awful, and is used in much the same way as beef stock. Adds flavour to soups and stews. Common throughout Malaysia and Indonesia, other nearby countries too.

I was hoping the floor shrimp wouldn't be for human consumption. But I guess I was wrong about that.

**Moby Duck** · Feb 26, 2025, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by nova_robotics

I was hoping the floor shrimp wouldn't be for human consumption. But I guess I was wrong about that.

Cats, dogs, bare feet, cars, and lots of flies but everyone survives.

**Frank S** · Feb 26, 2025, 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by Moby Duck

Cats, dogs, bare feet, cars, and lots of flies but everyone survives.

sometimes you are better off not knowing how food is processed. If you ever tour any American cannery, you will think long and hard before ever opening another can of green beans, beef stew, or any other canned good for that matter.