Chili shrimp
Chili shrimp is a dish of stir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce in Chinese cuisine. It is a part of Sichuan and Shanghai cuisines.
In Japanese Chinese cuisine, ebi-chiri is derived from Shanghai-style Szechuan cuisine. It consists of stir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce. It has a history in Japan. According to the Iron Chef TV series, prawns in chili sauce was invented by Chen Kenmin, father of Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi.
In Korean Chinese cuisine, chili shrimp is called kkansyo-saeu, a named consisting of the word kkansyo derived from Chinese gān shāo and saeu meaning "shrimp" in Korean, or chilli-saeu with the English-derived word chilli.
