Start with the spicy fried soft shell crab and juicy morsels of grilled beef wrapped in betel leaves.

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When soft-shell crab is in season, we've served a whole fried one with Thai influences.

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Stone, ceramics, soft-shell crab, and sake were united in a family of subtle hues and distinct textures.

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Continuing the theme of found food, a soft-shell crab is presented as an edible beach treasure, surrounded by amaranth grains for sand and brown-butter sauce for seawater.

NEWYORKER: Atera

Soft-shell crab with a hazelnut salad, fried oysters with a green-chile-buttermilk dressing, a gin-and-tonic salmon with a subtle juniper aroma: these were creative combinations not often seen on New York menus.

NEWYORKER: Bell Book & Candle

He hits the quintessential barbecue dishes, pork ribs and beef brisket, but also planked camembert cheese, soft-shell crab sliders, bacon wrapped prunes stuffed with gouda, porchetta, Thai chicken skewers, Korean beef tacos, lobster, shrimp, oysters, Cambodian style chicken, Argentinean, Brazilian and Peruvian dishes, even grilled Angel food cake.

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He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

I'm like a little hermit crab who retreats back into his shell.

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Not simply a David Brent clone, Pincus is a cold fish, a crab who doesn't want to be drawn out of his shell.

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