Jumping Shrimp Salad: A Traditional Ilocano Way of Eating Raw Shrimp
My previous post discussed about how we caught and cooked the live river shrimp from Kabigan falls in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte. This morning we had breakfast in Kabigan falls. Found out from conversation with 2 women that their usual, traditional Ilocano way of eating those live river shrimp is raw! Yes, a traditional raw paleo diet meal.
How to make Ilocano Jumping Shrimp Salad technique:
1. Sprinkle salt on live shrimp to “kill†them.
2. Remove shells from shrimp.
3. Dip in freshly squeezed calamansi juice.
Eat.
And by the way, even if my 2 younger kids gorged on the cooked shrimp at lunch time, for the very first time, absolutely no allergies came out of their skin.
Which proves that shrimp store toxins if they come from polluted waters. Say a polluted lake, polluted ocean, polluted fish pond. These Kabigan Falls shrimps are so very very very clean.