Crab in Padang sauce leaf. Then the crab pieces are mixed with stir fried spice paste together with crab broth, scallion, tomato ketchup, chili sauce, oyster sauce, salt and pepper. Then the sauce is being thickened with beaten eggs. The Padang sauce crab tastes savoury, hot and spicy. Other than crab, the identical Padang sauce is often used in other seafood, such as "kerang saus Padang" (clams in Padang sauce). Crab in Padang sauce Crab in Padang sauce or Padang crab () is an Indonesian seafood dish of crab served in hot and spicy Padang sauce. It is one of the two most popular
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