Ukoy (Filipino Shrimp and Vegetable Fritters)

Ingredients

• For the Dipping Sauce
• cane vinegar
• teaspoons fish sauce
• medium garlic cloves, minced
• bird’s eye chile, stemmed and thinly sliced
• For the Ukoy Fritters
• large shrimp , peeled and deveined
• teaspoons soy sauce
• ounces mung bean sprouts
• small carrots , peeled and cut into 2 1/2-inch-long by 1/4-inch-thick matchstick
• small sweet potato , peeled and cut into 2 1/2-inch-long by 1/4-inch-thick match
• fluid ounces ice-cold water
• ounces white rice flour
• teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt plus more for seasoning; for table salt, us
• vegetable oil or other neutral oil for frying