Some tips on crab hunting..
Always look your prey in the eye,
And never look away for a minute..
When the food arrives, check that you’ve left no claw unturned..
After giving it the thumbs up,
Hammer away ..spare no claw..
Worse comes to worse, just use your hands and your teeth…
Ah, tis finger and claw lickin good!
The signage outside the restaurant looks like it has seen better days. “Super Crab Aroma Seafood Restaurant” it says. Instead of a front door, the entrance is a sliding glass panel and as I make my way inside, I cannot help but wonder, how on earth I could have missed such a strange and aged looking restaurant right in the vicinity of my work place in PJ.
salted egg crabs
Still the place is comfortable enough with airconditioning inside. A desirable feature seeing as we are about to sweat buckets in a minute.
sweet, sour spicy crabs
Oh yes, the surroundings are challenging indeed but none of these, though, compare in sheer man-versus-beast slopfest to the sweet spicy Crab—a bowl of deep, murky, bright-red chili sauce out of which several crab legs and thick claws protrude. You enter the battle armed with two-pronged stainless steel picks, extra napkins, a small version of a chopping board and something that looks like a square metal hammer. A plastic bag is placed on the chopping board for you to insert your crab claw, so you can smash the hell out of the shell, without getting bright orange sauce all over your nice Armani shirt as well as your neighbours. And if that is insufficient artillery for you, do what the boys did.. just use your God given enamels and go at it like a caveman. As you suck the life out of your crab like a lost soul, with guilty chili-stained hands,try not to look too deranged like you have just committed some gruesome murder but couldn’t remember how or why.
Crab porridge
Crossing over to the tranny side has never been quite this fun. We were told that this particular porridge gleams with a beautiful yellow hue, due to the roe from a rather “confused” crab. All the crabs you see above are from Sabah but this particular one used for the porridge is a “He-She” crab. The design on the body of the crab indicates that it possesses both female and male organs, making it a rarity and highly delicious.
Anyway, all we can say is that this restaurant is a food-focused, soup-slurping, crab-leg-sucking kind of place. It is a gem in its own way—and ours.
Add: Super Crab Aroma Seafood Restaurant, (shoplots outside Mutiara Apartments, next to Wong Poh) 40 Jalan BM 1/2, Taman Bukit Mayang, 47301 Petaling Jaya. 603 7880 9793 Business hours 12 – 3pm , 6 – 11pm Google Maps
Now that’s what I call a crabby feast!
no point being crabby.. hor… just crabs!
Usually, there are pretty girls as the ones posing cutely/ seductively with the food. <– *YAWN* Glad to see that you've given the boys a chance to show us what they've got. 🙂
i think these boys with baby blue eyes and shirts are hotter. just saying.
I need a crab feast right now!
it’s nearly lunch time.. come get me please;)
I love the taste of crabs but I’m terrible at the … technical aspect (I don’t know how else to describe it, lol) of it. the claws are ok that’s just hammer and eat the meat, but the “body” part that’s attached to the smaller legs, that part always got tons of meat left stuck to the various bones/cartilage and what not 🙁
I hate eating the body too! Apparently there’s an art to picking the crab body.. something I don’t have the patience for – give me the claw anytime! LOL
He-she crab? Any difference in taste ah? 😛
ROFLMAO, same but the eggs are thicker and gunkier.. the flesh is softer and sweeter.. like bapuk ar? haha
What a cute presentation. Prince Charming!!!!
yeah, both of them are Prince Charming’s 😛
aiyoh making me hungry only!!
grrrrrrr:P
haha what a funny post. Some people might wrongly pronounce the name of this place to “Super Crap Aroma seafood Restaurant!” hahah
LOL
Ahh, the boys come out to play where the crabs at! I need to be around crustaceans more!
you do.. and handsome boys:P
Let’s get physical physical ….
i wanna get physical!!
Super huge crab claws!! When are you bring me there? hehe
NOW!
BTW the guy looks a lot like French actor Gad Elmaleh (the one in Priceless)
LOL, no lah.. where got. this one is better looking !
this reminds me of my lobster porridge last week. but your crab version definitely looks richer and tasty. sounds like a good choice after a badminton game at the nearby courts. 🙂
wah lobster should be tastier no? Maybe our crab had tons more of roe, that’s why so rich..
Handsome only….. I mean the guys!!!
really? i thought you meant the crab! hehe
I dunno what’s more delicious… the crabs or the cute crab eater… 😉
hahahaha
Wow, this looks absolutely delicious. I’ve added it to my list for the next time I’m in the country! Great photos, guys.
thanks Jodi! too kind!!
such great crabby pics, yums!
🙂
Holy crustacean carapace Crabman!! Super Crab Aroma Seafood Restaurant looks like it swam out of some dream of mine… those claws are soo big!
hi Josh! yeah i know.. tell me about it. and unlike the sri lankan ones that tend to be big, but a little tasteless, these were sweet n succulent!
I want crabs NOW! U so bad la 😛
Great step-by-step on how to enjoy a crab! Fantastic photos as usual 🙂
Oh my god!!!! It looks super. Please put that on the list of yours ‘where to take Juno to eat’
That’s one big lobster down your tummy!