Takla / Crayfish / Crawfish
by Marketman
Late afternoon, we visited the Mangga market in Tagbilaran, Bohol to see what the local fishermen had brought back from their day’s toil at sea. Locals shop this market around 4-5:30 p.m. (and early morning, I gather) to buy the freshest ingredients for their dinner. Besides the sanga or whale meat that I wrote about yesterday, I spied these creepy crawlers that looked somewhat like crayfish or crawfish. When I asked what they were, the vendor said they were called “takla†and that they were caught in mangroves, or marshes with brackish water. After inspecting them more closely, and looking up references, they do indeed seem that these are one of dozens if not hundreds of members in the crayfish family around the world. Isn’t that cool? I had NO idea we had crayfish locally. We had no way to cook them on our brief trip, so I just took some photos (instead of buying and cooking) and added a mental note to remember and get back to Bohol in April/May so I could try them then…
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