14 minutes ago, KennethT said:@liuzhou when you buy shrimp in your supermarket (or wherever you buy them) are they head-on and shell-on or do they come precleaned and headless?
I usually buy wild shrimp in the wet market where they come live and wriggling, so they are head and shell intact! The ones I ate today, I cleaned and shelled apart from tails. Heads and shells are making a stock right now.
One of my local supermarkets also does live farmed shrimp, which I only buy if the wet market fails. Until recently that was rarely, but we live in strange times.
Otherwise, it's possible to buy dead ones either cleaned, decapitated or fully intact apart from life. These may or may not have been frozen. Frozen are also available. I very seldom go there.
