5 vietnamese salt and pepper crab Recipes

flour, salt, freshly ground black pepper, cayenne, dungeness crabs, cooked, cleaned, quartered, and cracked, vegetable oil for frying , plus 3 tbsp., garlic, chopped, spaghettini (thin spaghetti), butter, at room temperature, dried red chiles, grated fresh ginger, green onions, chopped, serrano chiles, stemmed, seeded, and chopped, sake or other rice wine, basil leaves, chopped, mint leaves, chopped, cilantro leaves

uncooked rice vermicelli noodles, lukewarm water, granulated sugar, fresh lime juice, rice vinegar, fish sauce (such as three crabs), serrano chiles, thinly sliced, green leaf lettuce, diagonally cut slices seeded kirby (pickling ) cucumber (about 2), cilantro leaves, torn thai basil leaves, torn mint leaves, cornstarch, dark brown sugar, salt, white pepper, shrimp, peeled and deveined, canola oil, divided, green onions, garlic cloves, finely chopped, unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped

blue crabs , live (substituting 2 live dungeness crabs, about 3 lb each ok), peanut oil, for frying, flour (seasoned with salt and freshly ground black pepper), butter, olive oil, stalks lemongrass, fresh (grassy tops discarded and bulbs finely chopped), garlic, minced, hot pepper flakes, gingerroot, fresh, peeled and julienne, tomato paste, kosher salt, sugar, green onion, finely chopped, serrano chilies, sliced into thin rounds (optional)

water, pork bones, salt, fish sauce (nuoc mam), vegetable oil, garlic clove, chopped, shallots (only the white part ) or 2 scallions, chopped (only the white part), crabmeat (canned, frozen or fresh ), fresh ground black pepper, cornstarch, water, egg, white canned asparagus, undrained, chopped fresh coriander (chinese parsley), chopped scallion top