Could someone tell me what no. 105 on the menu really is?

Crab sticks or artificial crab meat Probably is crap though

ปูอัด -literally 'pressed crab', so yes, a reconstituted form of crab meat, like fish fingers.

http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclo...ation-crab-meat

Just another case of good use of Engrish.

LOL @ the typo.

I think most ปูอัด in Thailand is not the original artificial one. Instead, it mostly consists of fish meat like the fish ball. ปูอัด has been widely eaten here for just almost 20 years and became locally made.

For processed fish products like fish ball, if it's the cheap one is made of shark meat.

If it's made from fish then it's not crab so it is artificial crab.

ปูอัด "pressed crab" is never real crab, as I understand it -- always fish. It's what I grew up calling "imitation crab". In the U.S. it's usually pollock or some other cheap white fish, with red dye on top. I dunno what they make it from here.

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So to be honest, the menu could have read 'artificial crap meat (<deleted> fish)'?

Yep, looks like they got the translation spot on

Pedantically speaking, I suppose there's no such thing as 'artificial crab', unless you're talking about plasticine.

If it's edible, you'd have to call it 'crab substitute'.

I am reminded of the Fawlty Towers episode, where the veal is re-vealed, as it were, to be 'veal substitute', in that case, it was soy bean and essence of cow.

Edited May 26, 200917 yr by RickBradford