Self-introduction

Welcome to my blog! I started Nin’s kitchen in late 2013, while living in Hawaii, just to showcase a few different dishes that I cooked, nothing special. To provide my girlfriend at the time with good food, I began looking up recipes and experimenting with new dishes. One thing led to another and it blew up into a full-on collection of different foods. I started with the dishes I knew, then the popular ones, and then… in April 2014, I caught 5 large Samoan crabs.

At that time I only knew the ginger onion stirfry, oddly enough, one of the best dishes there is (if not the best). I didn’t want to waste this opportunity with 5 crabs, making the same dish each time, and hoped to collect new dishes for Nin’s kitchen. That is when I began what would become one of the greatest journey’s I have ever undertaken: Make every crab dish in the world and take a picture.

By now I have made over 200 crab dishes from 20+ different countries, each complete with a recipe kept on a .txt file! I am continuing to find new inspirations for crab dishes every week online, restaurant menus, and on YouTube that I finally decided to document my cooking endeavors. I will be posting recipes and reviews of all the crab dishes, posting twice a week in order to create the most extensive collection of crab dishes found anywhere online! Occasionally, none crab dishes will be posted as well, including other seafood items, especially following outings where I’ve caught some lobsters and fish, and also when crabs are not in season.

Additionally, I am on a quest to try every reasonably edible crab species. With each of these species, I cook them by plain steaming, and stir-frying them with ginger and onion. So far, I have tasted over 20 different species out of the thousands of crab species in the world! Each specie is accompanied by a 4-part rating scale out of 10 points. Please join me on my quest to discover all the crab dishes and we can learn together! Let’s cook some crabs!!

Disclaimer: I HATE the concept of boiling crabs, especially alive. Please, if you do not know how to cook crab, at the very least, steam not boil. 

P.S. If you know of any unique crab dishes that I must try, please e-mail me!