Immortalizing Grandma's Garlic Shrimp

I'm trying topreserve my grandma's cooking by sharing them with the world. This garlic shrimp recipe is one that to her was "just stir fried shrimp" but really, it's so much more than that. Sweet, garlicky and totally delicious, not to mention a quick and easy weeknight meal!
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About Pai:
Pailin “Pai” Chongchitnant is the author of the Hot Thai Kitchen cookbook, co-host of a Canadian TV series One World Kitchen on Gusto TV, and creator and host of the KZbin channel Pailin's Kitchen.
Pai was born and raised in southern Thailand where she spent much of her "playtime" in the kitchen. She traveled to Canada to study Nutritional Sciences at the University of British Columbia, and was later trained as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in San Francisco.
After working in both Western and Thai professional kitchens, she decided that her passion really lies in educating and empowering others to cook at home via KZbin videos, her cookbook, and cooking classes. She currently lives in Vancouver, and goes to Thailand every year to visit her family. Visit her at hot-thai-kitchen.com

[@brandon3872]

I'm really interested in dishes with no name - dishes people create, and enjoy so much they make it regularly :)

[@Natalie-health-wellness]

Yeah same here, they usually are the best 😊

[@sophiophile]

100%. My mom and dad are getting up there in age, so we've started to make a family cookbook so nothing gets lost to time.

[@PailinsKitchen]

Totally!

[@tookitogo]

@@sophiophile That’s great! Around 20 years ago, I visited my grandma on a college break, and had her show me how to make all of her “famous” dishes for me to document. I already knew how to make them, more or less, but wanted to get nice photos of every step. And I’m really glad I did. Aside from documenting how she made those dishes, it was also just a lot of fun for both of us!

[@artistlovepeace]

You know these are all fantastic recipes if grandma shared them. They're priceless. Still the best Thai Food Recipe channel on all of the internet.

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[@johnr1348]

I know you probably won't read this.....but I don't even cook and I am enthralled by your cooking videos!!!! So much Talent!!!

[@julietcook1068]

This looks delicious! Your sigh after your first bite totally sells it too! 😋

[@-RONNIE]

It seems like all grandmas make the best foods am I right. Thanks for sharing this one with us

[@zombiexsix]

I'm a fan of the picture-in-picture edits, we can see a close up and still see you doing it it real time. It feels natural and informative at the same time.

[@somkanyatungsanga9926]

I've just moved to Edmonton for a few weeks. Now, I become a big fan of Hot Thai Kitchen. Cooking Thai food does relieve homesickness. Thank you though.

[@damienscanlon6965]

Good luck in Edmonton.... I'm on van Island. Love these videos so delicious

[@theguynextdoor4978]

I’m in Thailand now. Just bought Pailins book. Grandma recipes are the best.

[@cgillit]

Thank you for sharing for all of us who never had a Thai Grandmother (but wish we did) !!!

[@frankm496]

Amazing like always. You're the best! You make cooking fun. Thanks to you for your hard work and dedication...

[@leerobbins5636]

Thank you! This is my next adventure in following your recipes and traditions involving your family. I'll make this at my sisters house.

[@janetadkins6224]

I followed the recipe and it was delicious - turned out better than restaurant quality and I couldn't stop my amazement that I made it. It has a completely new flavor profile that I am so happy to add to my rotation. Thank you so much for sharing your Grandma's recipe and giving such simple, clear, precise instructions with a picture of the paste!

[@lillianlouie4284]

Congrats on figuring out the recipe! Tasty memories.

[@2badger2]

Always fun to watch your channel. Your beautiful smile and great recipes help make my day.

[@jx804]

Just made this and wowza the flavors!!! So good - even my picky daughter loved it!! Will make again for sure.

[@RolandoNispiros]

I made this today and loved it! Thank you 🙏🏽

[@almay8703]

I can't wait to make this. I love, love garlic shrimp.

[@TheVivienne1990]

This is by far the best prawn dish I have ever made in my life!! The yum is through the roof!

[@mds123069]

Looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

[@laurenantonia1]

This is absolutely delicious! It tastes like something from a really good restaurant. It’s amazing how such a quick and simple recipe can taste so good. I strongly recommend anyone who is considering making this, do it!!

[@khun1pla]

It’s Friday 9:00 and I watch your video. I get a broad grin. You make my day perfect. Your style to teach, your kindness is perfect. God bless you.

[@mta5858]

This was just amazing! I used your prik nam pla with it and that sent it to a whole other level of awesomeness. Thank you for sharing your Grandma's recipe, I will be making this over and over again

[@nt0020]

Another hit... thank you grandma

[@kenxiong6830]

Loving this channel!!! Totally broadening my cooking skills. Thanks

[@ralu1651]

This looks so lovely!!! The Portuguese version is just the sauce replacement with freshly squeezed lemon juice. Your grandma recipe also yuuum!!!

[@gregbrooks7233]

Looks delicious! Love the heavy emphasis on garlic and the sweet and savory sauce.

[@nathanwildthorn6919]

Your "Mmmm," sigh/growl says it all... wow, it was filled with full yumness. You just acquired a new subscriber.

[@Natalie-health-wellness]

Thank you pai I have seen a new sauce/paste ❤❤ this dish looks amazing to me. My favourite dishes are like these. Can’t wait to try!! 💜🌸

[@j_alexa]

Wow.. that looks so good. Thanks for the recipe, Pai... I'm sooo gonna try this soon.

[@gageleighton7878]

One of the things I really appreciate about your channel, besides great content and recipes, is that your audio isn’t blown out. Compared to many channels their intro music or voice audio are way too loud, so thank you for actually correcting this! 👌

[@MORIDEUT]

I cannot believe I have not watched you before! Great video so easy to follow, I will be busy catching up on your vids, keep them coming and thank you.

[@PradeepYadav-ji6lh]

Love your recipes and your engery.. Cheers to you

[@saronnpov2687]

So simple … so goood, thanks for sharing !

[@thecunningkrugereffect]

Really loving your channel Pai! Lots of love from North Van!

[@willduterte9507]

Hello there miss Pretty Pailin my day is wonderful seeing you again stay safe and take care .

[@NekaMusaraj]

I love love when introducing thai styles of cooking seafood would also love to see how you prepare this way lobster, octopus and cattle fish 😋😋😋

[@rodwilliams5074]

Without Grandma's where would we be ?. 👍🥰

[@JFW5358]

Delicious and looks quite easy too. Thanks.

[@chrishartmann-lifeofadocto4735]

I just made it - it is really delicious- wow

[@rgarlinyc]

Oh wow - my two most favorite Thai ingredients - Pailin and Garlic-shrimp 💖💖

[@LastRODbender]

I just made this! Easy and it was fantastic. I took my lunch hour and found the shrimp sauce/paste. Awesome.

[@MichelleDenise64]

Looks yummy grandma's made some of the best food.

[@michaeldaher6323]

Grandma’s dishes are always the best! And are truly comfort food! Please share more from her! 😊

[@WokandKin]

That's EXACTLY how my Grandma speaks about her cooking too! While I love her dishes to bits, it's always so difficult to get a recipe from her. I had to follow her around for years with a pen and paper and scribble all my estimations as she added ingredients and seasonings to her cooking. So THANK YOU for immortalizing your Grandma's recipes. These recipes are keepers! Can't wait to try your Grandma's Garlic Shrimp 🥰

[@vickyh910]

Such a good idea. Lost my mum a couple of years ago. Sadly she never wrote anything down so recreating has been such a mission but when we get it right it really brings her closer.

[@WokandKin]

@@vickyh910 The greatest thing is having those precious memories with you. It’s proof that you had an amazing person in your life because you still remember your Mum so fondly ❤️ I know how you feel about getting the flavors just as you remember them. I feel such a huge success when it tastes just like Grandma’s!

[@ferlazzari]

Great recipie! Thanks for sharing!

[@shannonh2541]

Wow - my mouth is watering 😂 yummy 😋 thank you!

[@richardnsalvador]

I will never be able to cook top quality food like you do! I can only approximate whatever you do cook. Still, I'm proud to be able to follow your recipes and come up with some edible approximations of your recipes! Thank you always, Chef Pailin, for teaching us HOW to cook! 😀 Your shrimps look delish! Greetings from Honolulu, Hawaii.

[@Kikiyayazengardens]

I love your cooking, this week I have been making pad thai. Every day a little different. Today was gorgeous. I lived in Prathet Thai for 5 years and I am planning to return to retire soon. I am homesick to Thailand.

[@dawnrobbins5877]

I'm sure it tastes as good as it looks! Shrimp is the perfect dish anytime! 😋

[@markkennedy6155]

Great video, once again. thank you.

[@cvk108]

Excellent dish. Thank You 🙏

[@comelaja6742]

I love to watch Pailins Kitchen make me become a chef in my small family 😅💋

[@Eye_Exist]

you should have seen my shopping bags today, so much chef tools and Thai ingredients i don't know where to put them 😂 all thanks to you, been watching your show every day! so inspiring and delicious, and you are so wholesome and sunny person i could watch you read phonebook and not get bored! this recipe gets to be my first 😋

[@janem3575]

Thank you for the extended still of the shrimp paste sauce. Much appreciated. I can get a good look at the bottle label :)

[@GF2445]

Great recipe. Will definitely try this

[@ardemisaguirre8088]

Soo yamy looks delicious thank you grandma 😋😋🥰

[@sak1339]

Thanks so much for sharing this (simple) recipe. I'll have to go shopping for the shrimp in oil paste.

[@vflandmarkvflandmark5523]

Wow...Look delicious ❤️ You making me hungry 😊

[@kenc2257]

That looks delicious.

[@catpawrosales4265]

Looks delicious 💛

[@matlepak9694]

I just watched one of your older videos from 8 years ago. You haven't aged a day!!! Is it all the magical that food?

[@valhallasodin]

Have made this twice already and making it again tonight, enough said!

[@terryc47]

Wow! Love this recipe. This is the 2nd time making it, but for this time around I have a story. I had pulled the shrimp out of freezer to thaw, and went for a walk. On way home I called past the supermarket to grab some stuff. Looked at the oyster sauce in stock, but all they had was make-believe oyster sauce with everything but oyster. Hoped I still had some in the fridge, but alas there was none. Googled looking for a substitute to use, but the closeest was fish sauce, but the recipe already has this ingredients. Luckily I had brought some anchovies from my visit to the shop, so smashed up 2 anchovies into a paste and used these as a substitute for oyster sauce, boy was that a good move. I am also on a sugar free diet, so replaced the sugar with an erythritol/stevia sweetener replacement. And it turned out delicious. Thankyou Grandma.

[@tomasrivera4950]

Omg that looks delicious I can’t wait to made them!!!

[@MLLL1234]

Looks delicious!!

[@illens08]

Mmmm 😋 this looks so delicious!

[@tavitlertritsumpun7160]

Hi Pai and Adam, Grandma would be so proud with this recipe. Adam bet you enjoy this dish.

[@AdamHotThaiKitchen]

Hi Tavit! ... and i missed it this time, her brother was helping out while they did some work on the set up. Next time! :) Cheers!

[@raisa_cherry33]

Looks so good 😍

[@bullymama369]

I'll be trying this one.

[@suchartboontid2560]

I find that garlic is the key to any good stir fry dishes. I made stir fry myself but it never tastes as good as my mother's. So I asked her to make it so I could watch. She uses garlic like a lot more than I thought, a whole head of garlic even. Plus a lot more oil than I use in mine. Oh, and I made your universal stir fry sauce, Pai. It was awesome. My mom started to use it, too, cause she said it gives the same result every time. Usually she just wings with the amount of different sauces.

[@nitanika1915]

What universal sauce?! Please share. 🙏

[@WowplayerMe]

This looks excellent. Next time I go shopping, gonna buy some shrimp to make this.

[@Redmi-xu1yo]

Classic garlic 🧄 prawn 🦐🍤😍

[@ruthS0106]

I’m going to try this 😋

[@henrymuzgay1023]

that looks great

[@Donttalktomeifyoureabot]

Looks deliciousss

[@MrAlvinSinfulSong]

Now I'm craving for it 🤤

[@OmaBike]

I need to try this. I used to get amazing Garlic Shrimp at a restaurant in Seattle, but I don't live there anymore. And I have never found the dish at any other Thai restaurant. Man, that food really stunk up the bus, but it was so good!

[@sitsuorn2083]

The speech is really emotional and makes you look good.

[@thanyawadeekongtimbalogh3122]

I have everything in the kitchen. I’ll cook tonight.

[@DE-cz8ei]

I love shrimp, would probably love this also.

[@HoHosKitchen]

simply the delicious 😍😍😋😋

[@jayadama1301]

Very yummy for your grandma!

[@phoenixr6811]

Wonderful goal👏🏾

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

thanks again!! :)

[@indaymae12853]

I will try this way of cooking shrimp, hoping I can find a shrimp paste like what you used to this recipe. Thank you for sharing, I am your avid viewers from the Philippines...

[@stevethea5250]

i like the preservation of family recipes

[@stevethea5250]

just seen the playlsit too

[@johne7100]

The author James Clavell was a POW in Changi prison during WW2. In his novel 'King Rat' he mentions that protein-starved prisoners made a substitute for prawn paste out of cockroaches.

[@bluorb]

Dang! I had a feeling I needed to pick up shrimp paste, but hadn't seen a recipe with it yet. I probably would have picked up the wrong one anyway, but now I know to pick up shrimp paste in oil & even took a pic. Can't wait to try this one out 😸

[@mrmiralg]

I'm glad you recommended your cabbage recipe as a side. That's one of my go to cabbage recipes! It's so tasty and simple. Looking forward to trying this recipe - need to buy some shrimp paste and white peppercorns!

[@jerrybdlben231]

Ok…..I admit it! I am smitten like a kitten and I have drank the cool-aide!! Today I went to every Asian store in Halifax to find the one and onlyRoyal Umbrella Jasmine Rice with the official Originated in Thailand stamp of approval! I purchased the 8KG bag for my cat and I…….but he doesn’t eat rice!!! 😢😢 I am obviously responding in jest…..,,but I have learned so much in the last couple of weeks watching your channel! Thank you and your team for what you do! Cod Bless…….spoken like a true Newfoundlander! 🙇🏼‍♂️

[@maykostachannel249]

I really like it

[@yoshiki1422]

めっちゃ美味しそう‼️ 食べたーい。

[@vilijanac]

I keep fresh PRAWN in whole shell, with sharp knife cut back, deveine, so watch your fingers. Then each stuff with thai green paste.

[@lecheflan4777]

I have so much fresh shrimp tomalley, ever threw it away because I know all the flavour's in there, and now I know what to do with it. 😁

[@peterdoe2617]

Great idea to keep these recipes! The recipes of my grandma got lost. ((She passed away in 1981, aged 88.) Wish I had saved at least some. But I was only 21. And it would havetaken some close looking, 'cause she never used "recipes", either. I'm also subscribed to "Glen and friends cooking". Great channel! His oldest cooking book is from 1646, I believe. Can't wait to make your Pad Thai: I've got some head-on shrimps and finally even the glassnoodles, made from only soybean starch. A shout out to our asian grocery store, here in Pinneberg, Germany: the had the golden mountain sauce and ordered the LeeKumKee premium (Boat Lady) oyster sauce for me. It has just arrived.

[@PailinsKitchen]

Sounds like you're all set to cook some Thai food :)

[@directmeal]

very good^^ 맛있어보여요

[@nxu5107]

Pailin, Thanks for this video. Can you also mention that Cilantro is corriander leaves please (if that is the case)? I looked up on google that's what was thrown at me. Most of us who live outside Thailand wouldn't know what cilantro is.

[@05drea86]

How cute the krok is called krok

[@user-pb1vp3nc8u]

おばあちゃんのシンプルな料理　エビ🦐🧄の香ばしい臭いが食欲をそそります。 ごちそうさまでした・・・😋

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