Honey Prawns – stays crispy! - Your Local Advertiser

Ingredients

• ▢ 300g/ 10oz prawns/shrimp (peeled with tail on (600g/1.2lb whole unpeeled) (Note 1))
• ▢ 1/2 tsp kosher/cooking salt (halve for table salt)
• ▢ 1/2 cup cornflour/cornstarch
• ▢ 9 tbsp cornflour/cornstarch (Note 2)
• ▢ 6 tbsp flour (plain/all-purpose)
• ▢ 1/2 tsp baking powder (NOT baking soda)
• ▢ 1/2 tsp salt (kosher/cooking (halve for table salt))
• ▢ 2/3 cup + 1 tbsp COLD soda water (club soda or seltzer water (NOT sparkling mineral water, Note 3))
• ▢ 3 – 4 cups vegetable or canola oil (~4cm / 1.5" depth in a pot)
• 1/3 cup 100g honey
• ▢ 1.5 tbsp (25g glucose OR corn syrup (light) (Note 4))
• ▢ 1 tbsp light soy sauce (or all-purpose)
• ▢ 2 tsp Chinese cooking wine (or mirin)
• ▢ 25g / 2 oz Vermicelli rice noodles (optional , a wad of it (not mung bean noodles, it must be rice noodles))
• ▢ Sesame seeds (finely sliced green onions)