A crabby meal

Since Kelvin has completed his training here, we decided to celebrate by pampering ourselves with a meal of snow crab last week. These white creatures have been taunting us to eat them ever since we stepped into chinese restaurants all round Perth. It was Kelvin's last chance to teach them (it) a painful lesson not to sit in their (its) tank, tempting us while we order some usual fare of duck and pork.

The snowy bastard weighed approx 4 1/2 pounds, and was fried with some salted egg york i think. Its meat was of course white, like most crabs, but was exceptionally soft. 5 of us attacked this evil creature with our mouths the moment it was presented to us. Ah it was sweet revenge for the months of mental torture this vile beast subjected us to. I think we finished it within 15 min? mabbe shorter. I had expected it to put up a better fight, but there wasnt really much meat (for 5 hungry guys, and one of them is Kelvin), so i was disappointed my revenge only lasted this short while.

Sensing the creature, in its final moment, had dealt a terrible blow to our pockets, we decided not to kill order its ally, the lobster. So we ordered the usual cheap fare, the combination plate consisting of roast duck, char siew, and roasted pork, the excellent hot plate tofu and the very tasty beansprouts fried with salted fish.

We should have expected at about $30AUD per pound, the snowy white bastard wasnt going to let us go so easily. In the end, revenge on the crab costs us $157, and the total costs for the meal costs us $45 each for 5 pax. I finally understood why almost all the chinese restaurants here have snow crabs, cos it costs so bloody expensive just to have one. Personally, big or small crabs, snow or normal, didnt really matter to me. I would have preferred normal crabs, if i can have several of them, instead of one snow crab. At least now that revenge is out of the way, i am at peace finally, and start having my normal cheap crabs from now on.