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Crab

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A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.

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Osaka's Dōtonbori district is a Disneyland of food, where the restaurant signage includes a giant mechanical crab, a blowfish the size of a hot air balloon and a giant squid that puffs steam.

I met Lisa here, a Californian backpacker and photographer my own age, and we spent afternoons swimming and walking, evenings lazing in hammocks with cold beers or eating crab (and that fiery pepper sauce) at the quiet restaurants (the two best are part of the family-run bungalow resorts at either end of the beach).

Kampot pepper stars in this region too, notably at the nearby Kep crab market, where the locals serve it alongside the tasty little critters – well worth a trip.

Scallops, crab, langoustines, mussels and lobster are all caught in the loch itself; smoked salmon comes from Inverawe, a few miles south.

And yes, when you remove the top from a bowl of steamed egg custard, the scent is black truffles, at once funky and pure, over the ocean scent of Dungeness crab.

When John Prescott appeared with a crab in a jar in 1997, he ruined the moment by calling it Peter, after his enemy Lord Mandelson.

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According to some estimates, the natural habitat of the crab-eating macaque will be destroyed by 2000.

The state is due to get around $4 billion in stimulus money: most will go to health and education.The ailing blue-crab industry, meanwhile, based in eastern Maryland, will receive a paltry $10m.

All this has combined to shut down crab-picking houses.

At best, coming good will consist of a tapering off of violence, and a crab-wise movement towards a political accommodation between the governments elected under Western supervision and the militias now fighting them.

It was not until 1960 that a Polaris missile was successfully test-fired from a submerged submarine, and not until 1965 that Dr Craven converted a nuclear submarine, the Halibut, into a secret spy ship full of cables, strobe lights, giant crab-claws and remote-controlled cameras.

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