If you haven't tried them, they're both pretty good. Aldi pre-cooked, peeled prawns and Aldi prawn gyoza. Not as good as fresh-caught, but quite passable for a quick snack without any horrible 'fishy' taste to them. (Don't bother with the calamari though....ughhh.)

I've a steamer on the stove right now with a dozen of the Gyoza, and just mixing up some ginger, sesame, soy, and vinegar to dip them in. Great COVID work lunch.

On cooking, why don't my hard boiled eggs peel consistently?
The shell comes away cleanly on some but others need to be picked off in little chips.
#firstworldproblems

Where are the ingredients from? Almost every seafood item I've seen in Aldi has country of origin to be either China or Vietnam. I will not knowingly eat seafood from these countries. Sometimes Aldi has seafood that has the country of origin as Australia on the box. I'll buy it then if it looks okay. I don't like having this rule as I too like steamed dumplings and the like and the ones from Aldi are very reasonably priced.

I wish Aldi would stop sourcing food from China as its too risky to eat food made or grown there.

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Mobydisc said..
Where are the ingredients from? Almost every seafood item I've seen in Aldi has country of origin to be either China or Vietnam. I will not knowingly eat seafood from these countries. Sometimes Aldi has seafood that has the country of origin as Australia on the box. I'll buy it then if it looks okay. I don't like having this rule as I too like steamed dumplings and the like and the ones from Aldi are very reasonably priced.

I wish Aldi would stop sourcing food from China as its too risky to eat food made or grown there.

I'm genuinely curious about what is risk is involved in eating Chinese or Vietnamese sourced seafood products

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knot board said..
On cooking, why don't my hard boiled eggs peel consistently?
The shell comes away cleanly on some but others need to be picked off in little chips.
#firstworldproblems

The fresher the eggs are the harder they are to peel, if your getting straight out of the chooks bum then they are near on impossible to peel.

Pre cooked and Pre peeled prawns are disgusting.

Australians please man up, buy fresh frozen and peel and cook yourself.

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Mobydisc said..
Where are the ingredients from? Almost every seafood item I've seen in Aldi has country of origin to be either China or Vietnam. I will not knowingly eat seafood from these countries. Sometimes Aldi has seafood that has the country of origin as Australia on the box. I'll buy it then if it looks okay. I don't like having this rule as I too like steamed dumplings and the like and the ones from Aldi are very reasonably priced.

I wish Aldi would stop sourcing food from China as its too risky to eat food made or grown there.

I'm genuinely curious about what is risk is involved in eating Chinese or Vietnamese sourced seafood products

Generally raised in filthy ponds and waterways and fed large doses of antibiotics to keep alive.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jun/02/china-water-dangerous-pollution-greenpeace

Asian prawns may be harvested from ponds exposed to raw sewage and heavy metals.

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knot board said..
On cooking, why don't my hard boiled eggs peel consistently?
The shell comes away cleanly on some but others need to be picked off in little chips.
#firstworldproblems

The fresher the egg , the harder to peel.

Immerse in iced water immediately after cooking. Start peeling quickly... chef tip

I remember thinking the giant prawns in Malaysia were epic till someone that prawns live on sheet and therefore thrive in the dirty water/raw sewage.

Fresh aussie any day over farmed sheet prawns.

Prawns, and crabs, are bottom feeders. That means they eat ****. It doesn't make sense they taste so damn good!

We used to catch so many mud crabs in the GC waterways we got sick of eating it. Almost. Claws as big as your forearm.

I'm not into banana prawns or other farmed prawns grown in Australia. I'll buy them but if there are king or school prawns, my favourite, available then I'll buy them.

Who knows how prawns from China or other overseas countries are grown? Are you willing to buy food from a country where the corrupt government willingly allows its friends to sell fake rice made out plastic?

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Mobydisc said..
Where are the ingredients from? Almost every seafood item I've seen in Aldi has country of origin to be either China or Vietnam. I will not knowingly eat seafood from these countries. Sometimes Aldi has seafood that has the country of origin as Australia on the box. I'll buy it then if it looks okay. I don't like having this rule as I too like steamed dumplings and the like and the ones from Aldi are very reasonably priced.

I wish Aldi would stop sourcing food from China as its too risky to eat food made or grown there.

Yep ,the ingredients are all poison

Probably from Ecuador

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Mr Keen said..
Immerse in iced water immediately after cooking. Start peeling quickly... chef tip

Boil green prawns in salt water until they float. Scoop em out. Then, what he said ^^.

Buy ONLY fresh caught locally sourced Australian seafood. Its some of the BEST in the world.
That IS why its exported.
In return we blindly consume the Whitespot infected IMPORTED seafood which then infected our own PRISTINE LOCAL BIOMASS....
All so we could save a few $/kg !!
Makes you stop n think about country of origin n just what youre really saving.....

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Tequila ! said..
Australians please man up, buy fresh frozen and peel and cook yourself.

I'm always amused by the phrase 'fresh frozen'. I always thought the whole point of being 'fresh' meant NOT frozen. Or is this just to distinguish from food that they let rot before they freeze it?

I cook my prawns within half an hour of catching them (school prawns on St Georges Basin), then straight in the fridge to eat fresh for lunch the next day.

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Tequila ! said..
Australians please man up, buy fresh frozen and peel and cook yourself.

I'm always amused by the phrase 'fresh frozen'. I always through 'fresh' mean NOT frozen. Or is this just to distinguish from food that they let rot before the freeze it?

I cook my prawns within half an hour of catching them (school prawns on St Georges Basin), then straight in the fridge to eat fresh for lunch the next day.

You call that fresh? I wade through the water with a bunsen burner, a net, and a billy. Scoop, boil, eat.

Now that is fresh.

A fridge? I never understand 'fridge' fresh.

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FormulaNova said..
You call that fresh? I wade through the water with a bunsen burner, a net, and a billy. Scoop, boil, eat.

Now that is fresh.

A fridge? I never understand 'fridge' fresh.

Hahah, but seriously, who started this 'fresh frozen' thing? Some marketing guys for sure. It's on plenty of food packaging, but it's a contradiction in terms.

I think it means they are processed on board the fishing boat, as opposed to waiting until they get back to shore.

Frozen at the point of collection from the sea aka boat.

Prawns spoil very quickly, so if not frozen immediately after caught they will rot. At commercial fishing scale.

Are those pre cooked? Pre Peeled? NO

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FormulaNova said..
You call that fresh? I wade through the water with a bunsen burner, a net, and a billy. Scoop, boil, eat.

Now that is fresh.

A fridge? I never understand 'fridge' fresh.

Hahah, but seriously, who started this 'fresh frozen' thing? Some marketing guys for sure. It's on plenty of food packaging, but it's a contradiction in terms.

The term is incorrectly used on
many seafood products these days.

I worked on a Barra boat in the Kimberley for a season, all processing done onboard.
Fish are gutted,gilled & kept in a brine just above freezing.

Fillets are then vacuum sealed and boxed at -45 degrees. ( sorry, I'm a bit off topic)

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FormulaNova said..
You call that fresh? I wade through the water with a bunsen burner, a net, and a billy. Scoop, boil, eat.

Now that is fresh.

A fridge? I never understand 'fridge' fresh.

Hahah, but seriously, who started this 'fresh frozen' thing? Some marketing guys for sure. It's on plenty of food packaging, but it's a contradiction in terms.

I think someone had to create it to match up with what they do on commercial fishing trawlers. When you watch those deep sea fishing programs they have a challenge as they are out at sea for a long time and have to either keep the fish on ice or freeze it. It makes a lot of sense to prepare it and freeze it onboard and throw the remains overboard.

Then again, it could be a supermarket after they realised that they can get 'fresh frozen' prawns from vietnam and market them against fresh prawns locally. The use of the word 'fresh' will make people subconciously equate them as equal.

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Rabbs said..
Fillets are then vacuum sealed and boxed at -45 degrees. ( sorry, I'm a bit off topic)

An apology for going off-topic? This is SB STB.... you're supposed to apologise for NOT going off-topic.

I've got a box of fresh frozen raspberries in the freezer. Yeah, the overseas ones with hepatitis. I mash them up and put them on icecream - apparently not fresh frozen, presumably made of rancid milk?

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Rabbs said..
Fillets are then vacuum sealed and boxed at -45 degrees. ( sorry, I'm a bit off topic)

An apology for going off-topic? This is SB STB.... you're supposed to apologise for NOT going off-topic.

I've got a box of fresh frozen raspberries in the freezer. Yeah, the overseas ones with hepatitis. I mash them up and put them on icecream - also fresh frozen, apparently.

The health benefits from eating Hep raspberries & crappy ice cream is well known in medical circles.
As well as releasing happy endorphins in the brain, the combination of the two has the ability to repel viruses such as Covid.
Cheers, Dr Rabbs