prawns Aglio Olio with asian twist

According to Wkipedia, Aglio olio is a traditional Italian pasta dish that can be made cheaply without seasonal or store-bought ingredients. It is usually spaghetti served with sauce made of sauteed garlic in olive oil.

I love Algio olio as it is easy to make with minimal preparation and cooking time, makes it a good dish to have when you are very hungry, like in the case of lunch today.
Ingredients (serves 2)Spaghetti for 2 / dried pasta of choice
8 large prawns
2 bulbs of garlic
2 chili padi
3 large dried scallops washed & soaked in warm water for 20mins
2-3tsp olive oil
Lemon juice ~1tsp
Freshly grated parmesan cheese

Boil a large pot of water.

While waiting for water to boil, prepare the rest of the ingredients. Peel & crush the garlic, de-seed and roughly slice up the chili, peel and de-vein the prawns, drain and flake the scallop, and not too forget, grate the cheese.

Now that all the "hard work" is out of the way, the water is probably boiling.
Make sure that the water is boiling vigorously, add 1 heaped tsp of salt to it followed by the dried pasta. Give it a good stir. Do NOT add oil to pasta water!

Heat up olive oil in skillet. At medium-low heat, add garlic followed by prawn heads. (the prawn heads and garlic helps give flavor to the olive oil)
When the prawn heads are cooked halfway, turn up the heat & add in the prawns.

At this point, it will be good to give the pasta another good stir.
Stir fly the prawns and remove the cooked prawns.
Add scallop and chili to the skillet.

Check on the pasta which should be cooked to al dente at just about 1-2mins from now. (it helps that the pasta I bought was instant spaghetti which cooks in 8 mins compared to the usual 11-12mins)
Drain the pasta. Do NOT rinse in cold water!
Add the pasta and prawns to the skillet. Squeeze some lemon/lime juice and give the pasta a good stir.
Serve immediately with cheese +/- parsley.

The Aglio Olio I made is full of garlic as I love garlic, especially these which are so soft and sweet. In the really hungry situation, a good alternative to dried scallop is dried shrimps (Hei Bi) as it takes away the need for pre-soaking.