€12. Fumbled my way through the order with the help of google translate and the #1 thing to learn in a foreign country; please and thank you. But of garlic butter and freshly picked salad. Sorry no photos of cooked, couldn't wait
by uppenatom
8 Comments
deadrobindownunder
I don’t even know what to call this fellow but he looks delicious. Well done OP.
TheWoodLibrary
Absolutely beautiful, enjoy 👍🏻
Slippery-Mitzfah
Doesn’t get much better than this!!!!!
Sleepy-Blonde
Just grilled some of these, they’re fantastic, enjoy!
Old_Barnacle7777
I’m thinking this is either a spiny/rock lobster of a slipper lobster but I’m just guessing that through Google images searches. Where was the lobster caught? That would help with the identification.
ZeMike0
This is not a lobster. This is a giant tiger prawn. Or in Portuguese, camarão tigre gigante.
They are usually imported from an old Portuguese colony in Africa, Mozambique. There are businesses dedicated to fish them and overnight them in big boxes of ice to Portugal, so they arrive in just a few hours and fresh for daily consumption.
Here’s a good example of these bad boys, by a well known YouTuber, making a review in a Lisbon restaurant
Was it tough? I like to buy medium sized for me to cook at home but when I go out and they are large they tend to be tough, maybe that’s the wrong word for it. I don’t like them to have too much texture or resistance when I’m eating them. I find rock shrimp or tiger prawns this way. Even the Big Reds they serve around here are a bit like that.
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I don’t even know what to call this fellow but he looks delicious. Well done OP.
Absolutely beautiful, enjoy 👍🏻
Doesn’t get much better than this!!!!!
Just grilled some of these, they’re fantastic, enjoy!
I’m thinking this is either a spiny/rock lobster of a slipper lobster but I’m just guessing that through Google images searches. Where was the lobster caught? That would help with the identification.
This is not a lobster. This is a giant tiger prawn. Or in Portuguese, camarão tigre gigante.
They are usually imported from an old Portuguese colony in Africa, Mozambique. There are businesses dedicated to fish them and overnight them in big boxes of ice to Portugal, so they arrive in just a few hours and fresh for daily consumption.
Here’s a good example of these bad boys, by a well known YouTuber, making a review in a Lisbon restaurant
https://youtu.be/3mJ7YVF8tpw?si=zoJxoV_agiPuNG2y
Greatgooogallymooogally!
Was it tough? I like to buy medium sized for me to cook at home but when I go out and they are large they tend to be tough, maybe that’s the wrong word for it. I don’t like them to have too much texture or resistance when I’m eating them. I find rock shrimp or tiger prawns this way. Even the Big Reds they serve around here are a bit like that.