Comments on: Air-flown Alimango (Mud Crabs) From Culion…

By: happypenguin

happypenguin — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:25:32 +0000

Hi Marketman! Ive been an avid follower for 2 years now. Can you give me the contact details of your crab supplier. Thanks!

By: Fards

Fards — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:33:48 +0000

@ Josephine, I believe that is a female as the tummy is wider.

By: Fards

Fards — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:32:00 +0000

For fresh crab, I love it naked and just steamed. The sweet meat is enough yumminess. My ex was a licensed crab fisherman here and I used to cook/steam loads of them when he came with the harvest. Wrap them well and freeze them. Our dungeness crabs are delicious and huge. One is enough for me. But I never tire of it. I cooked them with fermented beans, or with lots of ginger and some coconut milk and curry. Love, love crabs.

By: Odessa Ates-Villareal

Odessa Ates-Villareal — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:44:31 +0000

wow!!! i love it steamed and sahog sa laswang gulay or labong…. simply the best!!!

By: Betchay

Betchay — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:51:15 +0000

Looks so fresh!…..wish I was invited for dinner he!he!he!

By: Mart

Mart — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:55:10 +0000

I don’t think I’ve had a crab that big before!
I could imagine just boiling it in some seasoned water as Susan described, then have some butter sauce with a splash of lemon for dipping. Yum!
And some cold beer of course! Sarap!

By: dred

dred — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:22:21 +0000

Hello MM,

We call that kind of alimango as “banhawon”. You can actually stock it longer (1 to 2 weeks) alive.
you can use palanggana or balde or ice box. put water (maybe 1/2 inch high) and add asin (parang timplang tinola lang :-)). and not too salty. dapat alimango is not submerged or elsethey’ll drown. use a big balde or leave enough space for alimango to move around.

Change the water solution every other day or when water is already dirty.

Enjoy.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:22:14 +0000

When it’s so fresh like this I prefer to just cook the crabs in seasoned water and have a variety of dipping sauces to compliment the sweetness of the crab. This way I can have a variety of tastes! Oh and a big pot of hot rice of course.

By: Footloose

Footloose — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:09:04 +0000

Could it just be that the camera’s red-eye flash mode was not enabled? The ones not directly facing the camera are not red-eyed. On the other hand, they could have been flown on a red-eye flight.

By: Ken_L

Ken_L — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:04:46 +0000

A big mud crab can crush the top of a beer bottle, so your toes would not stand a chance :). But I think they have the tastiest meat of all the crabs.