Crevette grise – This North Sea delicacy can be found all over Belgium and some seafood restaurants will serve you a snack bowl of these crunchy crustaceans. Gray shrimp, which despite their name and apperance have a sweet and delicate flavour, are prepared in a number of ways; you can find tomate crevette, fresh tomatoes stuffed with a prawn salad, croquettes of crevette (garnaalkroket in Flemish) or eaten peeled as a snack with beer. This shrimps were traditionally harvested all along the Belgian coast by fishermen on horseback, and is still practised in the coastal village of Oostduinkerke and forms part of UNESCO\’s list of intangible cultural humanity heritage.
