On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:00:05 +0800, Bjorn Vang Jensen
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Bob,
>
>> >The purpose being to see - after the meal -
>> >who had the least stains on their white shirt!  I never even made
>> >it into the qualifiers!)  :-)
>>
>> Mental note:  Bring messy-eater's bip.  You would have to see it
>> to believe this mahvellous piece of adaptation Sue "invented?" for
>> me during our last trip to Hong Kong!
>
>Better bring it, mate! The pepper crab is vicious to any type of
>textile :-)

That customized bip had been field tested on the Caribbean King
Crab dish at PRIMA.

The ordinary crab-crackers are no match for the hard shell of those
king crabs (in fact the first such I took there for Albert as a
suggestion of using IT instead of the crude meat HAMMER on a board,
the cracker broke while the crab shell remained intact).

So, the way to eat king crab there is HAMMER the crab (after it had
already been hammered and split at the kitchen) at the dinner
table, where the pieces of crab morsels can be seen flying to the
face of your eating partner, or the next table, or two tables away,
depending on how hard you beat up the crab!

My messy-eater's bip is at least three times as big as those
plastic bips they tie to your neck when you order crab or lobster,
and if one brings a full-face mask, then the entire body would be
crab proof!  :-)

-- Bob.