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My second nephew loves to eat crabs, both hard-shell and soft-shell types. For hard-shell crabs, he likes to eat crabs cooked in different flavours, ie. the black-pepper crab, black-sauce crab, butter crab, crispy-oat crab but not so much on the chili crab and steamed crab. This is probably because the chili crab is too spicy and the steamed crab is too plain for kids.

Recently, my nephew had been bugging me to buy some deep-fried soft-shell crabs for him to eat. So I went to the nearby seafood stalls hoping to buy his favourite crispy deep-fried soft-shell crabs for him. But to my surprise, most of the stall helpers either had never heard of or were not selling soft-shell crabs. They only had hard-shell crabs cooking in different flavours.

Then, I went to the shopping centres and did my hunting for the deep-fried soft-shell crab at the various restaurants. I remembered that I had been to one of the Vietnamese restaurants that was selling soft-shell crabs so I headed towards its direction. When I reached there, however, I found that the Vietnamese restaurant had already been moved out of the shopping centre. Gosh!

I consoled myself saying that that were still many restaurants around so I continued my hunting for the soft-shell crabs. I walked towards a Japanese restaurant and was delighted to see the picture of soft-shell crab was displaying in their menu. After I placed the order, the waitress came back to me a few minutes later saying that the deep-fried soft-shell crabs had already been sold out. I was disappointed again.

I’m wondering why soft-shell crabs are seemed to be uncommon as compared with the usual hard-shell crabs. Even if you have the money, it just doesn’t mean that money can buy whatever things that you wanted to have. Well, I will try my luck again some other day.