Efoo's First Encounter With Crabs (2010-02-17)
Late last year, Efoo met his first mud crab from Ueno (
). It wasn't a live one and he showed little interest in
that. Recently, we ordered a kg of live blue swimmers from
southern Japan and Efoo was mesmerized by those wriggly crustacean.The box of crabs arrived after traveling by air in a sealed
styrofoam box. When I opened it, I was disappointed to find them
motionless. They dead?! Their bodies also felt very cold
sitting on
a bed of ice cubes. I moved the crabs to a bowl and put them on
the computer where it's warm and what do you know, three came
alive! So, they were just suffering from a bad case of
hypothermia and not dead. Unfortunately two remained still and
never regained consciousness.
There's a reason KL insisted we pay more to get live crabs than to
buy those dead or frozen ones from the supermarkets. These blue
swimmers were so very good. Their meat was firm, sweet, juicy and
full of roe. Recipes for the two dishes I made from them to follow
tomorrow.
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