Crab lessons

On our first night in Kuching, Terismum organised a seafood dinner at the Palm Garden Seafood Restaurant, which was close to our hotel. It was part of the restaurant service to provide transport to pick the guests from the hotel and return, so was quite stress-free getting to the place.

Here is the address and telephone if you are interested: Palm Garden Seafood resturant, Jalan Santubong, tel: 082-846526. They will even organise overnight fishing for RM$1000 a boat that fits large group. Santubong is 45 minutes away from Kuching town btw.

We ordered pepper crab and Tomyam crab but I still prefer the former. Pepper is an excellent product of Sarawak - one of THE things to buy when you are there. The tomyam gravy tasted more like curry and it makes an uncomfortable combination with crab. We also ordered some delicious local vegetables which look like weeds with tendrils. These taste crunchy. We ordered tons of food which included a large fresh fish and it came up to only RM$30 per person.

So there we were picking out our food fresh from the tank. The resturant staff showed us how to tell a female crab from a male crab. You flip the crustacean over and look at the shape of flap right in the center of its body. The female has a large piece which some describe as a diamond or hexagon. The male one is shaped in a thin triangle strip.