Hairy Crabs!

Mrs Tam invited us to her house for hairy crabs dinner on Wednesday night. (We had a long day, Angie taught, we had dim sum yumcha, I taught, then we attended a school staff meeting from 3.45 to 6.30.
At 6.45  Karen Suyen opened the door of the lecture to call us out.

When we reached Mrs Tam's flat, the girls had already finished their dinner.

You are late..., Mrs Tam said.

The girls cleared up the table.

Our share of the crabs!!!

Cherry, Mrs. Tam's 12 year old daughter helped us to prepare the crabs for dinner.

See the thick black hair? Hairy crab!! Mrs. Tam ordered them specially from China.

Chong Yen Fang holds up a hairy crab.

Wait!!! my hand is shaking! ngor sau chan says Chong

Okay, no more shake.......see the hair on the claws?

Anthony shows a prepared crab.

He does not eat crabs, only chicken rice!

Hainan chicken rice.

Yummy and substantial.

Meanwhile, Mrs Tam was in the chicken steaming the crabs.

She kept bringing out endless servings of crabs! Crabs still in paper bags

The fridge full of crabs.

The sink full of crabs.

Washed, scrubbed,soaked and steamed with ginger.

Uncooked

Cooked

String cut off

Anthony kept cutting crabs for us

First, cut off all the legsand claws

This is Cherry, only 12 years old

the gills which cannot be eaten

the claws/pincers with the thick black hair

the legsPrise apart the carapace

You can see roe and golden egg like creamy stuff.

the tools!! special pick, scissors and spoon for scooping flesh!

use the long spoon to scoop roe and other stuffhmmmm rich and creamy like egg custard

Angie does not dare to eat the roe, she only eats the meat from the legs and claws

So, I gave her my legs and claws!Wah! Feast!

Rueann, Karen Suyen and Chong also enjoys hairy crab roeWe had so many!

Thanks to Mrs Tam, the first time we tasted hairy crabsbags from the students in a special roomThe students are going back, they came straight from schoolMrs Tam gave Karen Suyen a Hello Kitty doll

And all of us a goody bag (tea set, almond ginger paste, Macau pineapple jam biscuits, dried meat, egg rolls, and candy)

That was not the end of our night. Next, we went to Temple Street!!
We really maixmised our trip!