"I have made the shrimp from this recipe once and the sauce twice. The shrimp are delicious, but as other reviewers have pointed out, the coconut is extremely time-consuming to prepare the way he describes in the episode. I would recommend throwing it into a food processor, which is what I recall him doing in the coconut cake episode. The sauce is also great--it definitely did not taste or look like plain peanut butter to me. I followed the recipe almost exactly, except I have never used the fish sauce, since I didn't want to buy a bottle just for this recipe. I also used lower-sodium soy sauce since that's what I keep on hand. My biggest problem with the peanut sauce is that there is way, way, way too much of it. Fortunately, it's good on just about everything from soba noodles to cut vegetables to stir-fry, but it'll be a long time before I manage to use it all up."