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Sweet Chili Crab Dampa Style

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If you’re in Manila, there’s these rows of restaurants called Dampa. Dampa is actually “hut” in English, and these Dampa are small stalls usually near a Seafood Market that cooks live and fresh seafood that you bought yourselves. They only charge you for cooking your goodies from the market.

Anyway, one of my family’s favorite is the Sweet Chili Crab. I already wrote one here: Chilli Crab Recipe Filipino Style, lol. We really love crabs and seafood! This is another crab recipe that you can try.

I just happened to pass by a street vendor selling freshwater crabs and shrimps and instantly I thought of cooking this sweet chili crab. These are the small freshwater crabs, not the big ones.  I think in the island we called it “kalapay”. Its been a year or so since we last had some.

I got into chit chat with the “Manong” Vendor and I asked him about the girl, boy, bakla tomboy issue. I usually here this when I go to the market, O, buy this one, mas maganda, bading kase. It was a bit funny and weird to be asking about it. Here’s his little advice. Study the underside, in particular the light-coloured triangular flap. Males have narrow bellies while the females’ are wide and rounded. In comparison, the “Bakla” or gay crab is not as narrow but not as wide as the females. If you prefer to have it with “itlog” or eggs, get the female ones. If you want it fleshy, get the “gay” ones. :P

 

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HI! MY NAME IS APRIL!

Relax Lang Mom is a Pinoy Mom Blog for food, lifestyle, and simple living. I believe that you don’t have to be perfect to be a good mom. Let us give ourselves permission. Permission to not be perfect. Permission to relax. And as my son always say, out of the babes mouth, (which incidentally is where this blog’s name came from) “Relax Lang, Mom!

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