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RE: The Tangy Crab: Wrong Time, Wrong Place
We have a boil place here called Cajun that specializes in that last thing. It's nice and all but you are correct that it is so much damn work for so little food. I was messy and crap, ruined one of my favorite shirts, and when we were done I felt like I needed to go eat somewhere else. That sort of stuff isn't really for me but it isn't because I don't like the taste, there just isn't enough substance to it.
Crawfish or crawdads are even worse. Gotta peel off all that carapace so carefully and by the time you are done you have a piece of shellfish the size of a gummy bear. Maybe if I was outdoors and could just throw shell all over the ground and had a towel to constantly wipe my hands on it would be better.
I didn't even want to attempt the boil. I wish I like shrimp more, but it just isn't something that I can eat a ton of. I'm more of a eat the two they give you complementary at a Japanese Steakhouse and then I am good for the year sort of guy! I remember when we visited Maine as a kid there would be guys on the side of the road with a barrel and a fire boiling lobsters up. I probably haven't tried lobster since then. There's a part of me that really wants to love crab and lobster, but I just don't know...
I feel like lobster is highly over-rate and definitely over-priced. We don't have the lobsters like in Maine over here in Vietnam, but rock lobsters are quite common. They still cost around $40 though, even though basically everything else is super cheap. To me they just taste like very large shrimp and king prawns are big enough.
There is a really nice steakhouse here that has a surf and turf and the lobster tail option is twice as much as the king prawn option. I do the prawn option.
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