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Okay Dokey, Der Krabben! So lots of things to say about this dish so I’ll start from the beginning…. I thought of this dish when we had to enter the Streetfood Awards. I had never done it before, never tried the combination before, but combinations are combinations - fuck it, what’s the worse that can happen. I remember watching cooking shows or competitions and people put up a dish they had never done before, and i always remember thinking, “Why the fuck would you ever do a dish you had never done before? That’s mental, That makes no sense!?” Surely you would practice and practice, and practice some more to make something perfect to put forward to a panel of judges. But, here we are I had done the exact same thing, but low and behold, it worked. The combination works and it’s a tasty fecking dish…voted the ‘Best Main Dish in Britain’ don’t you know? Big shout out to Jonah & Duncan for sorting me out with the extra fresh brown crab I needed that got us the win!! The organiser of the awards mentioned that this could go all the way to Europe and wanted to make sure we were absoloutley going to go if we had the opportunity. “ABSOLUTELY!” We of course wanted to but had no clue how we would actually do it! Que Scott Conn! One of my best mates growing up. German ancestory, family just outside Munich and he told me there and then - I’m coming to Munich with you when you win!, Pipe dream surely, but lovely gesture none the less…

Anyway, we ended up taking the dish to both the British & European championships! Let me tell you… trying to get Kraben in Munich was the biggest pile of nonsense I have ever dealt with… no one sold it! No fishmonger, shop, market, anyone, sold crab. Nobody seemed to have ever heard of crab. Cameo Mr Scott, ‘The German Saint’ Conn, who not only drove us everywhere, sorted us out the equipment, and was the best salesman you could ever ask for. He phoned pretty much every German fishmonger, supermarket, store, and eventually found us soft-shell crab and actual live crab. 40 fucking euros per crab though! You don’t get a massive amount of crab meat unless they are giants… being a city with no seas on the borders there ain’t much crab so we had to improvise slightly. Who knew Lobster would be cheaper than crab over there!? So the lovely German people got one extravagant dish! We got through it but at an incredible expense! Would have been a bit shit if we lost. But we didn’t and that beautiful motherfucker got it done for us. We would have made no money, had no produce and probally no trailer with out the efforts of my old school friend Mr. Conn. We are forever in your debt you big beautiful 95 toothed German beast. We love you man.

Cam