Thai-Styled Fried Eggs with Sweet Dipping Sauce

1/3 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 tbls fish sauce
3 tbls water
vegetable oil for frying
6 shallots - sliced
6 cloves garlic - sliced
6 hard-boiled eggs - shelled

Combine the lemon juice, sugar, fish sauce and water in a pan.  Simmer for 5 mins and then cool.
Half fill a small pan with oil and heat until faint haze appears.
Add shallotts and garlic and deep fry until browned butnot burnt.  Remove and drain on paper
Pat eggs dry with kitchen paper and gently slip tow to three at a time inot the hot oil.  Stir and cook until crisp and evenly browned.

Halve the eggs lengthwise and arrange on a platter with a bowl of the sauce.  Sprinkle the eggs with some shallots and garlic