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Jonah Crab

BigGreenKev
BigGreenKev Posts: 268
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Local Asian supermarket (awesome place) has live Jonah Crab and I've never heard of it (MN so not always great seafood). Asked Mr Google and found recipes. Searched the forum and didn't find anything. Anyone here cooked or have personal insight outside of asking google? 
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,339
    Don't go hiding out this local Asian supermarket name now.... ;)
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • jdMyers
    jdMyers Posts: 1,336


    Yes my favorites to do.  I put a small pad of compote butter I make with seasoning in each pod.  Then spoon the butter as it cooks.  Love these.
    Columbus, Ohio
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,339
    There is an Asian Mall coming to Eden Prairie. I'm pretty excited to check it out once it opens. 

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kare11.com/amp/article/news/local/kare11-sunrise/asia-mall-eden-prairie/89-45dab026-d9d6-4d68-9ceb-e14f8949cecf
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • BigGreenKev
    BigGreenKev Posts: 268
    WeberWho said:
    Don't go hiding out this local Asian supermarket name now.... ;)
    Haha! Dragonstar in Brooklyn Park.  It's crazy the fish and meat they carry.  Jonah crab are 9.99/lb which no idea if it's a good price or not.
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  • BigGreenKev
    BigGreenKev Posts: 268
    WeberWho said:
    There is an Asian Mall coming to Eden Prairie. I'm pretty excited to check it out once it opens. 

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kare11.com/amp/article/news/local/kare11-sunrise/asia-mall-eden-prairie/89-45dab026-d9d6-4d68-9ceb-e14f8949cecf
    I hadn't heard about that project.  That sounds awesome!  I can't wait to see the live seafood market!  I've seen them in Vietnam and Hong Kong and they are awesome.  
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,339
    BigGreenKev said:
    WeberWho said:
    Don't go hiding out this local Asian supermarket name now.... ;)
    Haha! Dragonstar in Brooklyn Park.  It's crazy the fish and meat they carry.  Jonah crab are 9.99/lb which no idea if it's a good price or not.

    Hey thanks. I think @Photo Egg might have stopped in there and picked something up when he was in town. Beef short ribs I think?
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • Langner91
    Langner91 Posts: 2,120
    I always enjoy a good hairy crab during hairy crab season in Shanghai, but I had never heard of Jonah Crabs.

    https://www.hwcmagazine.com/recipe/steamed-shanghai-hairy-crabs-da-zha-xie-大闸蟹/
    Clinton, Iowa
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  • Photo Egg
    Photo Egg Posts: 12,136
    WeberWho said:
    BigGreenKev said:
    WeberWho said:
    Don't go hiding out this local Asian supermarket name now.... ;)
    Haha! Dragonstar in Brooklyn Park.  It's crazy the fish and meat they carry.  Jonah crab are 9.99/lb which no idea if it's a good price or not.

    Hey thanks. I think @Photo Egg might have stopped in there and picked something up when he was in town. Beef short ribs I think?
    Yes I did. Stumbled across store by accident. Crazy selection of all kinds of thing I have never seen before.lol
    Thank you,
    Darian

    Galveston Texas
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,682
    they just started selling them here a few years back and they catch them here. with the lobster prices going up they dont throw those back anymore. im assuming they are precooked and frozen so its really just a reheat
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • BigGreenKev
    BigGreenKev Posts: 268
    fishlessman said:
    they just started selling them here a few years back and they catch them here. with the lobster prices going up they dont throw those back anymore. im assuming they are precooked and frozen so its really just a reheat
    The ones I saw are live actually!
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,682
    i would  boil the jonahs with a ton of salt (lobsters in tanks lose flavor rather quickly and the salt brings back some of the sea flavor) pick out the meat and make a chowder or bisque.  with lobsters i under cook them,toss in ice water, pick the meat out and add it to the soup for the last couple minutes to finish cooking. over cooked lobster turns to clay in texture. never seen one alive in the tanks, they sell the claws frozen here now
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,158
    From the Momofuku cookbook


    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    From the pix above:

    maine jonah crab claws with yuzu mayonnaise
    SERVES 4
     
    I'm embarrassed at how Sandra Lee-simple this dish is.
     
    But you need crab claws from Jonah crabs - like Florida's stone crabs, but from the cold waters off Maine - which you probably won't find at your local fish market. No problem. You can do what we do, and what most every restaurant that serves them does: have them shipped to you frozen (and parcooked and cracked open) from Maine, ready to be defrosted and eaten.

    Then you need a few shelf-stable pantry items - Kewpie mayonnaise and two condiments made from yuzu, a crazily aromatic Asian cousin of the lemon - that can be picked up at any Japanese grocery or ordered online. And the yuzu mayo is just the tip of the iceberg. When Fran Derby - formerly of wd-50 and Tailor here in New York City - joined the kitchen at Ssam, he swapped out the yuzu stuff for harissa, a spicy Moroccan condiment you can buy in a tube, and it worked perfectly, even if the flavor of the whole dish was totally different. The moral of this story: crab + flavored mayonnaise = lots of possibilities.

    And that's it. A little defrosting, a little stirring: a seafood snack that you can have anytime. Embarrassingly simple.

    4 pounds frozen Jonah crab claws
    1 cup Kewpie mayonnaise
    1/4 teaspoon green yuzu kosho (yuzu chile paste)
    1¼ teaspoons bottled salted yuzu juice


    1. Defrost the crab claws according to the shipper's directions.
    2. Combine the mayonnaise, yuzu kosho, yuzu kosho, and yuzu juice in a dipping bowl and mix well. Serve alongside the crab claws.


    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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