How can an expensive food be a street food?

No one can resist a lobster meal, its considered as one of the most expensive dish in the world, it is sometimes associated with success and achievement. But in Taiwan, you can almost always celebrate life’s little victories with a street food meal of this crustaceans.

This video is quite sad, the lobsters are not fresh anymore. It was pre-cooked to retain its meatiness. Just like crabs, lobsters losses meat mass when captivity and spoils easily when it dies. So in order to prolong its consumption date, cooks pre-cooked them through boiling or steam. The halved lobsters then gets reheated with a bed of garlic to dispel any foul fishy smell. Whatever they do with this lobster as long its still edible, it will always demand a hefty price. Cheers!