Crispy Deep Fried Squid
Ika Geso Age in Japanese, Muc Chien in Vietnamese or Crispy Deep Fried Squid is a simple deep fried squid dish popular in East Asia and South East Asian cuisine, similar to calamares but this dish uses squid tentacles instead and served with a sweet and spicy sauce. Though there’s no rule in using only squid tentacles in this dish, it is just the most common part used in this dish as it is more flavourful than the squid tubes and it can be crispier.
Ingredients
500g squid tentacles, cut into rings
2 medium eggs, beaten
freshly ground black pepper
2 tbsp fish sauce
1.5 cup flour
1 cup cornstarch
sweet chilli sauce
oil
Method
1. In a bowl combine together eggs, fish sauce and squid.
2. In a covered container combine flour, cornstarch and freshly ground pepper
3. Place the coated squid one by one on the bowl with the flour mixture, cover and shake until coated evenly
4. In a deep fryer heat oil in a very high temperature and deep fry the squid, fry only for a maximum of 2 minutes otherwise it will have a rubbery texture.
5. Remove from fryer, place on a paper lined bowl then serve with sweet chilling suace.
That does look so good. I usually have fried calamari, and only at restaurants. I like this flavor combo and the sweet chili sauce sounds like such a great match.
I rarely eat fried food anymore, but I make an exception for calamari — yours looks amazing! I can taste the sweet chili sauce right now.
I’ll have to pass this recipe onto my girlfriend who loves squid. I’ll bet she would love to make it. Me…I’m allergic to shellfish and so is my husband so I’m afraid this is a recipe I wouldn’t be able to try.
I’ll bet it’s great with the sweet chili sauce! 
is this similar to calamares??
Nearly similiar, calamares is more of a medditeranean inspired dish and this one is more of a Chinese. They differ in parts used as well as the dip
I think I should stop looking closely at your deep-fried dishes photos. Now I want to have a huge plate of deep-fried squid instead of the light salad I was planning to prepare
(luckily I don’t have squid at home and shops are closed today!).
Seriously, this will maybe motivate me to cook the squid for the first time. I have only cooked calamars until now. Do you think it would work with a big octopus tentacles too?
Octopus tentacles are a bit tough so I am not sure if this is the best recipe for it but you can try my takoyaki recipe for that instead.
I thought the tentacles was less flavourful hehe.. maybe im wrong
These looks fabulous – I love crispy fried squid.
Mandy
goodness, lovely finger food and we will have this with our sambal belacan.