Stir-Fried Blue Swimmer Crabs with Bean Thread Noodles

In this dish, Mark Jensen uses blue swimmer crabs, one of the few crabs that are available uncooked but already dead - which makes preparing them much easier for the novice cook. Australian crabmeat is available frozen from good fishmongers; if unavailable, add a couple of extra crabs and let the diners pick their own meat. Bean thread noodles, also known as cellophane noodles, glass noodles or Chinese vermicelli, are usually made from mung bean starch. They’re very easy to use, as all you