Lontong sayur pepaya muda udang - green pepaya and shrimp in spiced coconut milk

Ingredients

• 500 g green pepaya, peeled and julienned
• 300 g medium size shrimps
• 2 lemongrass, bruised
• 3 cm galangal, bruised
• 2 Indonesian bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon ground dried shrimp (Indonesian: ebi)
• 2 pkgs cream coconut powder
• 1.5 L homemade shrimp stock
• oil to stir fry
• Spices to grind into a paste
• 6 shallots
• 3 cloves garlics
• 3 red chillies
• 3 candlenuts (Indonesian: kemiri)
• 1 teaspoon dried shrimp paste (Indonesian: terasi, Malay: belachan), roasted