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{“Thus, to demonstrate our obedience to the superior learning of our mufti, we forced ourselves to eat a fantastic crab-in-chili-sauce lunch. Amin, and pass the pineapple steamed rice.”}

Haven’t we ALL used that excuse at one time or another? Ha ha ha…..

I have eaten these mud crabs and siput sedut all my life and have no intention of stopping; to me they have always been halal beyond the shadow of a doubt. However, to say that the crab and sidup sedut are “marine” would also be, strictly speaking, misleading as they manisfest in the estuary (mud flats) and not in the sea proper. Referring to them as “estuarine” would be most accurate, biologically speaking. Definitely referring to them as aquatic is inaccurate.

As an aside, there is another estuarine creature called the “hei koh” in Chinese that I do not know the English name for. Some have referred to it as “crayfish” and oftens as “mud lobster,” but I cannot attest to the veracity of these terminology. The Malays, who are Muslim, do not seem to consume the hei koh and the Chinese have just one way of cooking it ~ deep fried with dried chillis, shallots and cashew nuts. It is usually eaten with fried rice together with a condiment of chopped garlic and chilli padi in light soy sauce. As to whether this creature is “halal,” I regret to say it may not be as the Malays do not eat it and I know of no recipe for cooking it that the Malays have. And even the Chinese have only one way of preparing it, as I have summarily described above.

I remember the Prophet having said what is not mentioned/forbidden is a blessing for men. More precise friends can provide the string of narration to that. Thank you.

Jordan, if adventurous means scorpion kebabs, Bin Gregory, if it also includes things which moves using mussles and without bones, like this buttery grub, I’ll pass the platter on.