Typhoon Shelter Chili Crab

 

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 2009

  • About

For most of a century, the waterfront of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay was a floating neighborhood of Chinese junks, sampans, and tenders that serviced the merchant ships in the territory’s harbor. This curving, protected bay was also a perfect place of refuge during the typhoon season and came to be known formally as Bei Fung Tong, or Typhoon Shelter. Gradually, it also became home to a small fleet of floating restaurants, to which diners were ferried for the particular dishes of these boat peo