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Malaysian Butter Prawns on TV and DMBLGiT First Place Winner!

October 10th, 2007 | Announcements | 32 Comments

Malaysian Butter Prawns

Thanks to my dearest food bud Jaden at Steamy Kitchen, my famous delicious Butter Prawns dish made its TV debut, live on Tampa Bay’s ABC 7 yesterday! Please click here for Jaden’s post and here for the video clip.

I would like to say “thank you” to everyone who has voted for me. You know who you are and you are a star!

And of course, I have to thank the author of Authentic Recipes from Malaysia for the recipe (which I adapted). If you want to learn more about Malaysian cooking, this is a great cookbook for Malaysian cuisine…

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