Steamed garlic shrimp with vermicelli noodles

Stir the butter and minced garlic over low heat until the garlic is defrosted.

Add the black pepper and the optional red chili flakes and stir until the butter turns bright red.

Remove the saucepan from the stove and season with soy sauce, fish sauce and oyster sauce.

Add the shrimp to the cooled sauce and mix thoroughly.

Boil the rice vermicelli noodles two minutes, then lift them onto a heatproof plate.

Lift the shrimp out of the sauce and line them in a circle on the noodles, then pour the leftover sauce over the plate.

Set the plate in a steamer over the boiling chicken pot, switch the heat from high to medium-low and steam six minutes.

Sprinkle with diced cilantro.