On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:22:18 +1300, Peter Huebner
> wrote:

>In article >, says...
>> Must be legal as we have strict food regulations in NZ. I buy and have
>> eaten frozen raw tiger prawns and I'm still here to tell the tale.
>>
>> You seldom find live crabs for sale here.
>>
>> Kathy in NZ
>>
>
>Kathy, a.f.a.i.c.t. virtually all the shrimps & prawns you get frozen at
>New World etc are pre-cooked, then snap frozen. Haven't even looked at
>crabs myself since I much prefer shrimp to crab.
>
>cheers, -Peter
>
They really were raw, Peter. I have been buying frozen raw Tiger
prawns and now the crab at Moore Wilsons. They come in large boxes
(1kg for the crab and about 800g for the prawns and cost $NZ22 prawns,
NZ$11 crabs).

On Saturday I saw that one box contained much larger tiger prawns than
other boxes so snapped those up for Xmas. When we were in Thailand we
had fresh tiger prawns that were gigantic.

pic of the Thailand prawns he
http://tinypic.com/fxh3m0.jpg