Nonya chilli mud crab

Chilli crab under the Klang bridge—the port is famous for it. Father would drive my grandmother there to eat chilli crab. I learnt this dish from my mother. She always tells me that crab must be cooked perfectly—too much and it will lose texture; too little and it will be unpleasant to eat. When I first saw blue swimmer crabs here I was shocked to see they were sold dead. In Asia they are always sold alive. Blue swimmer is tastier but the mud crab has more meat. When I first bought mud crab