Pharmacology New Student Crab Feast

Today, we had our annual Pharmacology New Student Crab Feast. This event was to welcome new students as stated in the feast name.

September is also the peak season for eating blue crab where it is at its best. The crabs were seasoned with Old Bay Seasoning and steamed. They tasted salty and spicy.

Expect to be messy since the crabs were served intact. You would have to remove the shell and gills. Mallets were provided.

Since I used only my thumbs and index fingers to grab the crabs, my hands were not as dirty as compared to my colleagues who used all 10 digits.

I ate three crabs slowly, extracting meat from the legs, pincers and body while one of my colleague just gobbled up seven crabs from the body only.

In Chinese folk story of Journey to The West, the Monkey God, Sun WuKong and Pigsy each had a heavenly peach. Being greedy, Pigsy swallowed up the whole peach while WuKong took a small bite at a time.

In the end, while salivating and staring at Wukong's peach, Pigsy asked Wukong how the peach had tasted.

Moral of this story, taste good food slowly and not by quantity.