Seide did a good job on shrimp research, in American colloquial, shrimp is a general term, prawn
is a jumbo shrimp, 15 or fewer to make a pound is called prawn. in the USA a frozen shrimp box
usually marked 21/25 that means 21-25 to make a pound, this size is ideal to make Jiao Yan Xia.
New Zealand did a good job on shell fish, they import big tiger shrimp (with stripes on the back
of the shrimp like tiger) from Malaysia and make it grow bigger and tender, mussels also grow b
igger and tender there, I enjoyed a lot of good food, lamb, venison, mussels, prawns.. while tra
veled with Jiao Ming there in 2004, of course, cooked by me in youth hostels.