Crab invasion

This is a surprise! Never knew they served whole crab parts with shell and all. I always thought it was too much of a hassle for ordinary folks in America. Or maybe it was the Europeans? Their food is always deshelled for convenience, for e.g. fillets & crab cakes. Even my experience eating lobster in Boston is pretty "convenient". The waiter deshelled it for me on the spot! No need to get my hands dirty.

So for dinner, we headed down to Joe's Crab Shack which is another chain store in the USA. Their speciality are crabs and other seafood in general. There are crab cakes, lobster fondue, fish chippies, grilled tilapia, etc. For the crab section, they have 3 types namely King, Dungeness & Snow crabs. I went for the snow crab option which I believe hails from the Bering Sea which is off Alaska. There was a documentary on Discovery about how the fishermen of the Bering Sea has the most dangerous jobs in the world. If they survive the crab season, they can stop working for the year; that is how much they are paid but there are perils every single minute when they are out at sea.

You also had to choose the type of preparation for the crabs, i.e. BBQ, garlic or steamed. The crab comes with jumbo grilled prawns on a kebab, corn & rice. The picture shows the coconut shrimps instead.

You got less than one half of the crab. Taste-wise, the crab legs were okay. The meat was sweet & succulent. However for some reason, it was cold. Maybe it was the air-con or it could be the way it was cooked. The shrimp was only average. I didn't like the corn or the sauces that they provided. I think it was melted butter and a hot sauce of some sort. The crab was nice in itself, it didn't need any sauces on it.

I still prefer the mud crabs we get in Malaysia & Singapore.