Just fry sliced garlic and sliced shallot till crispy. Use raw chili pepper flakes and dried shrimp (grind ed) were used in making this. Her trick is that in the oil, instead of just sautee frying dried shrimp and chilli peppers flake, which once cooked and cooled, would be added with crisp fried garlic and crispy sliced shallot to make this dish, she added an EXTRA step of frying mixed garlic in oil with turmeric power prior to cooking dried shrimp and chilli pepper flakes. would be