One of our regular places for eating crabs is in Old Klang Road at this restaurant located just after the fire station. And I shall share my very embarrassing crab story here. First off, I have NEVER, EVER cooked crabs in my life. I have never even really paid any attention to the live crabs in the market as I don’t know how to cook them so why waste time noticing them? I have better things to do in markets, like making sure my nails don’t spoil when touching fresh fish. I’m kidding. I day dream…..I day dream of all the yummy food that is about to come after returning home with fresh stock.

So when my Mama asked me to buy her some crabs the other day, I went to my usual fish market in search for crabs. And this is all my brothers fault because HE is the one who was making my Mom cook him crab curry so HE should have been the one searching for crabs in the market. But never mind that.

Because I am hopeless in speaking Chinese (I’m French, didn’t you know?), I had a slight miscommunication problem with the crab vendors (about 20 guys of local and foreign nationalities). I asked them if they had mud crabs and of course, they thought I was speaking French. Mom had specifically instructed me to get 8 mud crabs. I had no idea what mud crabs looked like but then I remembered, AHA! the crabs we usually eat at Hai Peng are mud crabs!

I searched around the table for some orange hard shelled crabs but could not find any. Why orange hard shelled crabs? Because all the crabs I’ve ever eaten are orange and have hard shells. So I asked them again if they had mud crabs and that they are orange, looked around frustratedly for the colour orange to show them and they all gave me this blank look. Then someone offered that they had this orange crabs in the warehouse but it was frozen and it cost RM20 per crab. Wow! I had no idea how much crabs cost but asked if I could order them and why didn’t they have them fresh???

They don’t do them fresh. The only crabs I saw on the table were the flower crabs of a colourful blue and some brownish crabs, which I later learned were also flower crabs. After complaining exasperatedly about their lack of good crab supplies, I told my mother that they didn’t have fresh mud crabs but only the frozen type. She said that was impossible. I asked her what they looked like, and she said BROWN. Perhaps it was THOSE brown ones I saw together mixed up with the flower crabs?

2 days later, I returned with my Godsister (bless her, she helped me to go buy the crabs together as I had 2 kids with me and if only she lived in this country, she would be the only person who could and would ever help me) and again, we had the same problem. NO MUD CRABS. I was about to order the brown crabs which I thought were mud crabs but Godsister said they didn’t look like mud crabs (she is the crab afficianado so she would know better!). And again, we went through the cat talking to duck scenario with lots of hand actions and pointing and Hollywood acting.

And then suddenly, Godsister gave out a yell. THERE! She pointed. At the back of the table behind the crew, were some LIVE crabs crawling about in a basket. THAT’s the mud crabs!!!

I was shocked, surprised, angry, embarrassed. Shocked because they were alive – I suppose they don’t come fresher than that! Surprised that the brown flower crabs I was about to get were not mud crabs. Angry that the crab vendors didn’t display their mud crabs openly (and should really learn the English terminology of their bloody crabs!) and embarrassed because I was looking out for orange crabs. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

When the whole family learned of my blur ignorance, I was made the laughing stock till my own husband was embarrassed I was his wife. Nobody could believe I went about looking for orange hard shelled crabs. Thus for now, I shall leave my crab buying and cooking for another life and go back to eating crabs at Hai Peng. They have great crabs reasonably priced and very delicious.

So there! I am telling you how BLUR I can get!!!

Below, some pics from Hai Peng……

*burp* Please excuse me.

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