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Aren't prawn crackers crackers? I mean, aren't they square like crackers?
These rice chips are perfectly flat--like large, translucent tiddly-winks. But when they hit the oil, their shape completely changes into unusual, neary amorphic puffs--like puffy clouds about the size of a kiwi fruit or perhaps a little smaller. They are loaded with oil once puffed--very greasy. But the flavor is nice--and, yes, I can imagine some kind of shrimp flavor has been added in the processing.
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What you have described sound like what we call prawn crackers. I've never seen them in an uncooked state but I imagine they start out as discs, but they don't end up the shape of whole kiwi fruit, so maybe there is something different. To look at they are like extra thick, puffy, light versions of potato crisps (what you call potato chips) and they snap cleanly but are rather oily. I am red-green colour blind, but my impression is that they probably have a very pale pink tinge which makes them look off-white to me. I guess the colour comes from the prawns. No one ever orders them but the Chinese take-away place always gives them to you anyway!
Potato chips to us are what you call French fries, though traditionally ours are of bigger cross section (about a quarter inch square) than the McDonald's variety. The thin French fries are worse for you as they have a greater surface area per kilo, therefore taking up more oil. But they cook quicker.
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No, dxb, not the shape of kiwi fruit, but about the size of kiwi fruit. The shapes are quite varied in these rice puffs. Maybe we are talking about the same Chinese junk food! 
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just google "prawn crackers", and you'll get a mouthful! (actually, I use http://www.alltheweb.com. better, I think)
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What do you like about AlltheWeb? Better than Google? I at least like being able to say I'm gonna google something--kinda hard to say I'm gonna alltheweb something. 'Course, we no longer say we're gonna Xerox something; we just say we're gonna make a copy or just copy something. I suppose one day I'll just say that I websearched something--but googling does cut to the chase, and here not a paper one, but an electronic one.
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Just checked out the photographs of prawn crackers. Nope, they're definitely not the tiddly-wink puffs I was thinking of. The puffs I've seen and have cooked are much more globular.
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What do you like about AlltheWeb? Better than Google?
well, sciolistically, I would say that google feels more commercial, more "popular", and I guess that's why I avoid it. alltheweb feels more "real", and less like I'm caving in to the mass-movement of society.
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Alltheweb gives "meaning of names" 15.6T on the googlometer to Google's 4T. FW*TW.
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and macroverbumsciolist (cross-threading) get two(2) Google hits and zero(0) on alltheweb. now what?
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I suspect what you're talking about are kerupuk (which would fit in nicely with Dr. Bill's alphabetical list about now). They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. I couldn't find a decent picture of kerupuk, but here's one (complete with recipe (only in Indonesian unfortunately)) of rempeyek, which are similar in shape to some kerupuk and which I actually prefer: http://cyberwoman.cbn.net.id/detil.asp?kategori=YourTips&newsno=66 Bingley
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