Mom's stir-fried shrimp and scallions from Myers+Chang at Home: Recipes from the Beloved Boston Eatery (page 277) by Joanne Chang and Karen Akunowicz

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  • SYoder84 on January 10, 2026

    Love this book but we were not a fan of this dish. The sauce was very gloppy.

  • foodgloriousfood on April 05, 2021

    Thanks for your note mzgourmand. I should have said in my second note, even with one egg white not two this recipe would still be the stuff of nightmares. I will proceed with much caution before cooking anything else from this book. On the basis of this one recipe the book should perhaps just go straight to Goodwill!

  • mzgourmand on April 03, 2021

    Thanks foodgloriousfood - this is very helpful. I was dubious about this book which was given to me as a gift as I have never been a Flour Bakery/Joanne Chang acolytes. At my family's insistence I have tried lots of Flour's various creations from the bakery itself - sticky buns, cookies, brownies, etc. and have just never been wowed. I live in NYC so maybe this is because there is a dearth of good bakeries in Boston?

  • foodgloriousfood on April 03, 2021

    I just googled it and Food and Wine mag has published it with one, not two egg whites! Do not use the two egg whites that the recipe in the book calls for!

  • foodgloriousfood on April 02, 2021

    Bizarre and actually kinda horrific recipe! I haven’t had a failure this bad for many years! With two egg whites and the ginger and garlic the shrimp are swimming in a slurry which you then fry in 1/3 cup of oil and then you add 3/4 cup ketchup and 1/2 cup stock? Seriously? No mention of draining the egg white slurry off but that wouldn’t be do-able anyhow as it was so thick - like oatmeal! I didn’t use the ketchup instead used some plum sauce (maybe 1/4 cup) I hate to think what it would have looked and tasted like if I had used 3/4 cup of ketchup and 1/2 cup of chicken stock! Pink slimy ketchup shrimp soup? I had to pick the shrimp out of the slurry to eat them. Wasted 1.5lbs of large shrimp. Flavor wasn’t bad with my homemade plum sauce but the texture wasn’t good as there was no crispness. I am cringing to think of how much worse it would have been of I had added the ketchup!

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