Palau is a famous tropical paradise, its nature and scenery is incredibly beautiful. In Palau, Choumeizai has eaten coconut crab which has not been seen in other places, such an experience is still unforgettable now, not only the taste of coconut crab, but also the guilt...
The restaurant provides many kinds of seafood, coconut is among the most expensive, you need to pay 75USD for one pound, which makes it around 150USD for one crab. The chef will show you the crab before he cooks it, making sure it is still alive.
To enjoy the fat of the coconut crab, the best way is blending with white rice, the fat is full of the sweetness and aroma of crab and coconut, such delicacy is out of the world.
Although the crab is not so big, but its meat and fat are dense, even enough for four people, 150USD is actually not that pricey.
Later learned, Palau’s government has actually forbidden the sales of the local endangered species such as coconut crab and giant clam, obviously the restaurant breaks the law, Choumeizai unexpectedly thinks of the last struggle of the coconut crab...anyhow, the coconut crab is really delicious.
The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is a species of terrestrial hermit crab, it is the largest land-living arthropod in the world.
Adult coconut crabs feed primarily on fruits, nuts, seeds, and sometimes coconuts, that’s how their names come from.