I hope someone can help me. I am looking for 2 recipes of basically the same dish. Both restaurants call it “crispy shrimp” but the sauce is different.

One restaurant would have more of a brown sauce, served with walnuts. The other restaurant puts an orange looking spicy sauce and serves with broccoli.

With both places, the shrimp has a very light coating that has been fried. Its not any kind of batter, maybe dipped in cornstarch?

I have googled and read all kinds of recipes, but nothing sounds like either dish, or the way it was prepared. I was wondering if maybe the one place uses Chinese chili sauce?

I just love this dish and want to make it at home, since the one place went out of business and the other place is not close to my house.

When ever I am in that area, I stop to get an order to take home. Would it be rude to ask how they make the sauce? I doubt they would tell me, but I don’t want to be rude by asking.

Does anyone here know the recipe I am talking about? I am almost positive there is no honey in either way it was prepared. So I don’t think the above recipe is the same.

Although I am going to give this one a try. I am sure all restaurants have their own versions of the same dish. But I would love to know how to make the brown sauce and the orange/red sauce.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sarah in N.J.