Live Prawns are devilishly hard to peel

This is not a metaphor or some s**t. I found out the hard way.

Chanced on a NTUC Income selling live prawns, so I bought some. Some of these prawns were still alive when I got home. Heck, some of them were still moving after I cut the heads off.

I'm not a tyro at this. I've separated my fair share of prawn meat and shell. But man, the meat on these prawns stuck on the shell like velcro. After some huffing and puffing, I had to give up on having nicely non-mangled prawn flesh - gotta find some way to disguise them tomorrow.

This must be a reason why restaurants serving fresh prawn dishes never take off the shell. (the other reason being that the shell itself should be a thermal shield mediating the heat cooking the prawn).

Live and learn.