Over the past few years I have had to travel quite a lot for work with many projects in Vietnam, Malaysia and parts of Europe.  More recently, I have tried to always have a good family dinner before leaving and this time there was to be no exception.  I was to travel to a small arctic town called Alta in the far north of Norway and I knew I had to do something a little better than takeaway (especially if I was to visit family in Germany).  I decided quite early in the morning, on sunrise (the day before I left), to swim off the coast and try to find a few crayfish for a beautiful thai style crayfish soup that I developed many years ago when I was teaching hospitality.  After swimming a couple of kilometres, I eventually found a couple of reasonable sized crayfish in about 8 – 10m of water.  Unfortunately, I don’t think the crayfish soup made up for the fact I was travelling to Europe – but it was a great soup, and I have heard that the leftovers were great.  It was also fun to try and find these elusive little cockroach type animals hiding in the rocks and coral.

Crayfish thai soup on the menu