Grills & Open Fire · Season 18 · Season of Autumn IV

Daeha-gui

Daeha-gui (Salt-Grilled Prawns) · 대하소금구이

Difficulty: Easy
Time to plan: 25 min
Serves: 2 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

This salt-pan prawn recipe cooks large prawns over a bed of coarse salt, with optional lemon and dipping sauce. The ingredient list permits live or fresh prawns. Consider the space available in the pan when deciding how many to cook in a batch.

Do not infer species or wild-versus-farmed origin from a menu name alone; check the seller information. You can also ask how the heads and shells are handled before ordering. Compare the size and condition of the prawns you have with the preparation described in the recipe.

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Ingredients (2 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Live or fresh large prawns	12	Whiteleg shrimp (less of the autumn mood)
Coarse salt	2 cups	Sea salt
Lemon (optional)	Half	Can skip
Chojang or soy-wasabi	For dipping	Online Korean grocers

Step by step

1.Prep the prawns
Rinse, drain, and trim only the whiskers with scissors.
2.Lay the salt
Spread coarse salt a centimeter deep in a heavy pan.
3.Heat the stage
Heat over medium flame until the salt crackles.
4.Grill under the lid
Lay the prawns on the salt, cover at once, and grill 3 to 4 minutes a side.
5.Eat to the head
When vermilion, peel and eat the flesh, then return the heads to the salt to crisp.

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Onnuri Hoe Town

111 Baeksajang 1-gil, Anmyeon-eup, Taean, South Chungcheong

충청남도 태안군 안면읍 백사장1길 111Checked 2026.08.11

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Haeunho Susan

126 Baeksajang 1-gil, Anmyeon-eup, Taean, South Chungcheong

충청남도 태안군 안면읍 백사장1길 126Checked 2026.08.11

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The fictional face of this dish

Fire element · a sharp, vivid face

On a heated stage your color only gets brighter. A face like salt-grilled prawns at the autumn harbor.

Upright: The prawn ripens red on a blanket of coarse salt, announcing the season's height. The pan is hot and the salt is laid. It is your turn to climb on and turn red. Stop hesitating with your hand on the lid.

Reversed: The prawn in the pot leaps, but it leaps inside the lid. Not all struggling is progress. Before jumping, find which way the lid opens; there will be time to spend your strength after.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

Fictional food metaphors inspired by traditional face-reading, not measurements of your face or personality.

Those eyes leap with life, the eyes of a prawn fresh from good water. Wild prawns are so quick-tempered they die the moment they leave the net, which is why the source port is king and liveliness itself is the price tag. Your vitality carries the same price. Any seat that wilts you is a seat discounting you, so hunting for water that keeps you leaping is your true investment strategy.

Those long lashes are sensitive as prawn whiskers: antenna features. The prawn reads the current first through those long feelers, and you likewise sense the room's air half a beat ahead. But sensitive antennae tire easily. Do not respond to every vibration, child. Read even the sound of falling salt as a disaster, and you will be boiled before autumn ends.

Those cheeks flush and glow: prawn cheeks that grow lovelier as they cook. The prawn lives grey and turns its finest orange over the fire; the heat of trial draws out the color. Your face too lights up in absorption more than in ease. So when your color fades, do not look for rest. Look for a board worth burning for. That is your constitution.

The prawn's autumn is short, which is why the whole country races to the harbor. Your peak season is not long either, so burn it without saving. The few minutes of turning red on the salt complete a prawn's whole life.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

Prawns and blue crab, hauled from the same autumn sea, lay the season in double layers on one table, while winter-solstice red bean porridge diverges from them at the calendar itself and never crosses this table.