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Last night I went out to eat with a group of friends at a fabulous restaurant right on the beach. The weather was just fantastic and so we decided to eat outside on the restaurant’s wood deck that is built on stilts right on the beach’s sand. We could hear the crash of the waves in the distance and the stars were shining bright over head. My friend and I decided to split an appetizer of fried green tomatos that were topped with Maryland lumb crab meat. The combination of the earthy and salty green tomatoes, crispy fried

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There are many amongst us, who love to eat dishes made out of crabs. When they are asked about the prime reason behind it, many of them reply that they do it just because of the great taste. However, it must also be noted that these dishes are very high in terms of the cholesterol count, especially when fried dishes are prepared out of crabs. It is not bad to eat crabmeat, rather the fashion in which a crab dish is prepared, should be checked. We should avoid all those crab recipes that make heavy use of fatty

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Bun Rieu cua is Vietnam’s popular noodle soup dish. If you already like the taste of Singapore or Hokkien prawn mee, you will definitely like Bun Rieu Cua. Don’t use your utensils to cook this though. You can put your wusthof knives back in the cupboard. Get the traditional stuff for this one!

The usual combination in soups is shrimp and pork, but for bun rieu cua it is crab and pork and tomato. The broth is usually prepared by the ingredients of small paddy-field crabs or crushed “cuo dong.” A paste is created by pounding the whole crab after

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There are many lovers of crabmeat, who go to great lengths in order to find the right type of crabmeat, so that they may enjoy it. This is because, according to such crab lovers, crabmeat is only highly enjoyable if it is of the right type as well as being fresh. However, not all of us have such a keen eye for detail. Most of us simply buy a packet of crabmeat from the market, whereas it in fact, may not be crabmeat. If we look at its color, the main question arises is whether is crab meat

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