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 :-)))
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!