
Originally Posted by
pseudolus
Personal preference I suppose. If I was being churlish, I would venture to say that that is how they came out of the freezer and the Isaan Egon Ronay didn't know how to or couldn't be bothered to remove them before the meat was cooked and shrunk away from the shell.
However, the shell adds more seafood flavour to the dish, so it has that going for it. Also, more pertinently for Fishy, he can grip the tail in his fingers and feed one to his love without the risk of it slipping from his fingers and falling into her ravenous bosom, only to be seen again when the weather warms up and she has a shower... sometime in March.