The crawfish extravaganza June 23, 2009
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Hubbs and I went for a splendid lunch buffet last week, where I tasted crawfish for the very first time! They look like prawns, don’t they? Tastewise, it’s somewhere between that of a prawn and a crab.
This is how people eat crawfish:
- Remove the head of the crawfish.
- Press gently on its body through the shell and massage it, to ensure the meat is dislodged from it’s hard exterior.
- Bite on a small portion of the body, and with one swift deft motion, slide the meat out from its shell with your teeth.
And this is how I did it:
- Remove the head of the crawfish.
- Take apart part of the head still stuck on the body.
- Proceed to massage the body as instructed,
- Bite a small portion, and pull gently.
- When the meat did not budge, massage a little bit more. Hands are all dripping with the juice of the crawfish now.
- Try biting and pulling again. Didn’t work.
- Use fingers to peel off the shell from the body.
- Remove the piece of crawfish meat and put into mouth.
- Wipe fingers clean.
Anyway, why is a crawfish called a crawfish? It’s not a fish…
Why don’t they call it a crawshrimp or crawprawn? Eh?
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LOL – i ate them the same way too. I wasn’t aware that there was a “proper” way of eating crawfish. Well, as long as you get the same end result, the journey doesn’t matter
Did you know that crayfish are considered to be agricultural pests?
The Giddy Tigress says: I didn’t know that…thanks for sharing!
haha I like the step by step instructions
so it basically something like a prawn?
The Giddy Tigress says: Yeah, but the shell is thicker than a prawn’s.
I’m allergic to anything with a shell on.
The Giddy Tigress says: Poor you! Hope you didn’t get a rash just looking at the picture!
Hi Croyce!! I’m in Bali right now, and there’s lots of seafood around but no sign of anything that resembles that juicy-looking prawny morsel
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The Giddy Tigress says: You’re in Bali?!!!! Wow!
hmmm… i tot it’s called crayfish?
The Giddy Tigress says: Apparently both crawfish and crayfish can be used interchangeably. See here.
Wow! Yummy!!!!!
The Giddy Tigress says: Finger lickin’ good!