Quote Originally Posted by Moby Duck View Post
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.