4 vietnamese fried 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

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)

crabmeat, cubed cooked chicken breast, julienned carrot, sliced cucumber, pomelo fruit, fish sauce (dipping sauce), chopped mint leaf, coarsely ground peanuts, chopped cilantro, fried shallot (optional)