Crab, lobster and shrimp; are they available live, what kind and how much do they cost in the local fish market?
It depends on whether you live on the coast, or if if you live in Northern Italy. Well...shrimps and common crabs are relatively cheap here, while lobsters are definitely more expensive. Obviously you can find both the European lobster (which is cheaper) and the American lobster (rarer to find). You can find several kinds of Mediterranean crabs.
I guess in seaside towns there are fish stores where you can find them live. In seaside towns, all fish stores sell fresh fish.
What other crustaceans are there?
You can also find mantis shrimps, several kinds of prawn, called
scampi or
gamberoni .
Can you buy your own fish and find places to just clean and cook them for you?
Do those places provide dine-in services too?
It's not an Italian custom; but in the big cities, like Rome and Milan, you can probably find restaurants which do that. I guess all restaurants provide dine-in services and some of them take-out service too.
From my avatar, do I look suspicious as an Arab that could cause me trouble there?
Well...I bet that some other people must have told you that you look like an Italian
, so everyone will think you're an Italian. But even if you hadn't looked like that, Italian people don't usually look at foreigners with suspicion.
Are the Italian ladies fine with Muslim Arabs?
Well...at college, a female friend of mine had a Muslim boyfriend. And as I told Deidre, one of my colleagues married a Muslim man. So...
