mantis prawn
again, a late post from 2 weeks back...............pre-lantern festival dinner..
We had a seafood dinner before heading for the lantern festival thingie. Its been ages since thewife and I have been to a seafood dinner. Theson already ate earlier so he was there basically for the noodles and “drinks” only. We ordered baked crab, baked mantis prawn, spicy prawns, noodles and fried icecream. Only thing missing was the meat-on-a-stick. The guy selling it was not around yet. and, i should've ordered the soft-shelled-crab as well.
anyway, I was actually pretty freaked out over the mantis prawn. Normally, I get the deep fried type where the meat has been removed from the shell and is fried in batter. for the baked version the meat is still in its shell and you have to pry the meat out by yourself. And it looks really freaky… you know why? well, why is it called mantis prawn in the first place?
You know like hammerhead-sharks has a heads shaped like hammers, right?
or a catfish sorta looks like a cat with its whiskers and all.... Well, the mantis prawn has a head that looks like a freakin praying-mantis...(or a cockroach even)… damm!!
Eventhough the meat was quite tasty, I had to keep looking away when I was eating the thing. Not ordering the baked version anymore…
We had a seafood dinner before heading for the lantern festival thingie. Its been ages since thewife and I have been to a seafood dinner. Theson already ate earlier so he was there basically for the noodles and “drinks” only. We ordered baked crab, baked mantis prawn, spicy prawns, noodles and fried icecream. Only thing missing was the meat-on-a-stick. The guy selling it was not around yet. and, i should've ordered the soft-shelled-crab as well.
anyway, I was actually pretty freaked out over the mantis prawn. Normally, I get the deep fried type where the meat has been removed from the shell and is fried in batter. for the baked version the meat is still in its shell and you have to pry the meat out by yourself. And it looks really freaky… you know why? well, why is it called mantis prawn in the first place?
You know like hammerhead-sharks has a heads shaped like hammers, right?
or a catfish sorta looks like a cat with its whiskers and all.... Well, the mantis prawn has a head that looks like a freakin praying-mantis...(or a cockroach even)… damm!!
Eventhough the meat was quite tasty, I had to keep looking away when I was eating the thing. Not ordering the baked version anymore…
posted by thehusband at 4:24 PM
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