Dorinda's Special Baked Fish

Ingredients

 * 1) 4 fresh pompano or red snapper
 * 2) 3 tablespoons peeled and finely grated fresh ginger
 * 3) 4 cloves garlic, minced
 * 4) 2 fresh red chiles, mashed into a pulp
 * 5) salt
 * 6) 1 tablespoon butter
 * 7) 1 teaspoon garlic salt
 * 8) 3/4 cup fresh or canned crabmeat
 * 9) 4 crayfish tails, cooked (optional)
 * 10) Chile Sambal
 * 11) Semolina Dumplings or Cornmeal Dumplings

Directions
1 Preheat the oven to 350 F/180 C. Scale and clean the fish, remove the gills, and cut off the fins and the tails. Lay the fish falt on a chopped board, and make 2 deep but short diagonal cuts in each side, leaving 1/2 inch between the 2 cuts.

2 Prepare the seasoning by mixing the ginger, garlic, chiles, and salt into a paste, and stuff some in the cuts on both sides of each fish. Rub the rest of the seasoning paste all over the fish.

3 Rub the butter over 4 pieces of aluminum foil. Place each piece of fish on a piece of foil, and sprinkle a bit of the garlic salt all over each piece. Loosely wrap up the foil to form parcels, and bake for 30 minutes.

4 Wrap the crabmeat in foil, and warm in the oven for 10 minutes. Unwrap the baked fish and sprinkle the warm crabmeat over each piece.

5 Serve each person a piece of fish and a crayfish tail, accompanied by Chile Sambal and dumplings.