The Gold Standard Taste Of Crab Fat Sauce

Fat is where the flavors are at

- Chef Gene Gonzalez

I just watched famous food vlogger Mark Wiens go on a trip to Mexico with some companions. After doing a street food tacos tour of Tijuana, they continued south to Popotla, a fishing village teeming with every fresh seafood you can imagine. The catch included giant spider crabs, also known as Martian crabs. During the meal, they savored the juicy fat in the shell of a Martian, for them, an alien but awesome and life-changing experience. Wiens called the soupy solution head butter.

In the episode, they enjoyed a condensed mixture of three crabs that was served in the Martian’s shell (like it were a bowl). Everyone had these ecstatic expressions saying that this is the essence of a crab.