By Ellen L. Published: 2012-06-05
This is the best crab dish. Bar none. Even better than the popular curry crab dishes that abound (which I think are overrated anyways). Just fresh crab, ginger and scallions. A simple trinity of three foods to create an absolute. Absolute of taste, that is. Simplicity and decadence on the same white plate.
For this Stir Fry Crab with Ginger and Scallion, or 姜葱蟹, we picked up from the wet market a mud crab which is a more meaty crab. But any crab will do for this dish as long as it is fresh. And there are all kinds of crabs, an abundance of choice really, at the wet markets in Hong Kong.
Ah, to live by the sea! What a dream come true. Of sorts anyways. We have all the seafood we can possibly cook and eat but are stuffed like sardines into shoebox sized homes piled in towering, untidy heaps along a polluted harbor. Sigh...