Live are best, that’s all we eat down here. We don’t need shipped in crawfish in Houston but this place ships for quite a bit of coin I’m sure. It’s not the season yet and I would wait until at least April but every year is different depending on temperatures and rainfall. Get a bunch of Zatarain’s liquid and dry seasonings if they have it.
I believe the minimum is 10 pounds which is enough for two hungry people. I used to eat five pounds routinely but don’t anymore due to skyrocketing prices and I just eat less.
The demand is high down here with Louisiana ex-pats from the oil industry and a couple of hundred thousand from Katrina. Pretty much everybody eats them especially the Asians and the have many restaurants in our sprawling Chinatown.
Blue crabs have taken a very distant second available only in Asian places and a few in Galveston. I buy live ones in a couple of Korean places ten minutes away.
