Name: Mud Crab with Glass Noodles
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons shao xing; 5 tablespoons light soy sauce; 6 tablespoons Chinese black vinegar; ½ teaspoon sesame oil; 4 dried red chillies; 1 tablespoon white peppercorns; 1 tablespoon coriander seeds; 2 coriander roots, washed and scraped; 3 tablespoons finely chopped ginger; 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1 teaspoon sea salt; 1 teaspoon shrimp paste, wrapped in foil and grilled until fragrant; 1 cup fresh chicken stock; 5 tablespoons oyster sauce; 2 shallots, cut into julienne; ¼ cup chopped coriander leaves and stems; 6 tablespoons sugar; 250 g glass noodles; 1 x 1 kg live mud crab

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Asian

By Neil Perry

Published 2000

About

This is really a sort of braise, as the crab cooks in its own juices as well as in the sauce. All these juices soak into the noodles, rendering them heavenly. There should be very little sauce in the pot at the end of the cooking time but if there is too much liquid, simply remove the crab and boil the sauce down until most of it has evaporated.