He chopped the crab body in half, then quartered it by cutting it into sections with two legs each. The claws were chopped off separately.
Slicing the grouper, slicing the abalone, de-bearding the scallops, cracking open the sea urchin, sectioning the sea urchin roe…
His movements were swift. In just ten minutes, he had finished prepping all the ingredients.
After Erica finished dealing with the black tiger prawns, she kept herself busy, peeling two large potatoes and getting a fire started.
Since she didn't know what he planned to make, she didn't dare do too much to help. She just stood quietly to the side, watching his techniques for handling the various ingredients.
Only after the open flames died down did he place four bamboo tubes horizontally over the charcoal embers to heat them.
He poured a little coconut milk into each tube. This prevented them from burning while empty and would also keep the ingredients from sticking when he stir-fried them later.
