Seafood
Whole crab
Also called mud crab, brown crab, live crab, Dungeness crab
A whole hard-shell crab, bought live or freshly cooked. Mud crab is the Singapore choice; brown or Dungeness crab stands in elsewhere.
Origin
Coastal waters worldwide.
Flavour
Sweet, briny meat; rich brown meat in the body.
How to use it
Chill a live crab in the freezer for 20 minutes to sedate it, then dispatch with a knife through the underside, clean and cut into pieces for the wok.
Storage
Cook live crab the day you buy it. Cooked crab keeps two days in the fridge.
