How Belacan (or Belachan) is made...

[laguna]

First make a shrimp paste in the blender, add lots of salt, ferment it, dry and then add cornflour. Finally form into blocks.

This nice lady explains the simple process of making Belacan https://ilovethaicooking.files.word...shot-2013-10-28-at-9-23-06-pm.png?w=500&h=333

If you fancy making some, you can buy frozen shrimp cheaply at most Chinese food outlets paying around £3.50 per kilo.

 

[benny samways]

Jeeneys belechan blocks are the dogs danglies.

Belechan is an amazing bait. A proper attractor of fish.

It smells like rotten socks, im not even half tempted to make my own.

Grate some of this into your stick mixes and catch some carps.

 

[thecrow]

Even with what my missus has put up with over the years with my bait making I doubt she would put up with the stink of making my own just try not to get any on your hands.

 

[laguna]

^Wimps!

That's nothing compared to what I have to put up with on a daily basis... Laguna's dedicated 'stink room', used exclusively for fermented quid meal, SAC juice blue cheese and the worse... something that stinks of what I can only describe as 'crusty old ********'

*Asterisks to protect those having their tea...