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| - Before the details, I will start with a disclaimer. Captain's Boil has many locations. Like any multi-location restaurants, my experience at the 5313 Yonge location should not be taken as a precedence for other locations.
I arrived at Captain's Boil around 6:20pm on a summer Friday night evening. I was greeted and informed by the hostess that there's a small wait for a table for two. She took down my number and put me on wait list. The wait list is managed digitally and notifications were sent via text. I immediately received a text acknowledging my spot on the wait list. While I waited, I wandered off to Structube. And this is where I will digress a bit.
Thinking that I have about 30 minutes to spare, my wait time was put to good use. Structube was having a decent sale. Within 10 minutes of walking around the store, I finally purchased the 3rd piece of furniture for my condo - a study desk. I thought I still had a lot of time to spare, so I took my 3rd stroll around the store, and that's when I got a text from Captain's Boil that my table is ready. I replied "1" to the text as instructed, indicating that I'm on my way back. At this point, I had 10 minutes to walk back. So I quickly grabbed a sales and cashed out.
Oh I was hungry. I wanted to eat everything at this point. They sat me down at our table, and gave us a walk through on their menu. (OH please, as if I didn't study the menu ad Yelp reviews ahead of time. I'm no noob.) They told us that they are few pounds before they sell out of crawfish and that we should order quickly if we wanted crawfish. That's a smart sales tactic because it really made me panic. I am a die hard fan of
????? / Sichuan Hot and Spicy Crawfish. (For those who aren't familiar with this Chinese cuisine, check it out here: http://kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/.../8Kaleidoscope12562...). I already had my mind set on having crawfish before I set foot in the restaurant. Actually, I really much know exactly what I would like to order, including the sauce and spicy level, from studying their menu days before.
Here's what we ordered:
- Crawfish in Captain's Boil sauce with 2 orders of corn
- Shrimp in Cajun sauce with an order of lotus root and an order of sausage
Both medium spicy.
At first, we were informed by our waitor that our food portion isn't enough for two people. I wanted to have a taste of the food first before I order more, if necessary.
I refused to put on the bib and struggled a bit to get into the set of plastic gloves they provided (they stick to skin so I had to wiggle a bit.)
Food came REALLY fast. Two plastic bags of steamy boiled seafood were dropped on our table within 5 minutes after we ordered. They must knew I was hungry and feared for the hangry monster that I was about turn evolve into.
Shrimp came first. I dug my hand in the bag. GOD IT WAS HOT. I felt the burn through my plastic gloves. Okay, no pain no gain, and this BETTER be worth the burn.
And it did.
Everything in the bag was soaked in a generous amount of Cajun sauce. There's also a good amount of chopped garlic in the sauce, which enhanced the Cajun flavour. I found that the lotus root tasted the best in this bag as it absorbed all of the Cajun goodness. I discreetly ate most of the lotus root. The sausage and shrimps were also amazing. I couldn't stop eating from this bag and neglected the bag of Crawfish.
As previously mentioned, I've had fond memories of Crawfish from another cuisine. Captain's Boil did not live up to my expectation. The Crawfish was much smaller than what I had in the past. Captain's Boil sauce is meant to be a mixture of 3 sauces (Cajun, Honey Garlic and Lemmon and Pepper). For whatever reason, I didn't take a liking in this combined flavour. And the sauce did not soak through the Crawfish shells so the tiny bitty piece of Crawfish meat was not flavoured. I had to dip it (and sometimes double dip... shhh) in the sauce. Even the corn didn't soak up any flavour. They tasted like regular steamed corn.
As a result, we finished the Shrimp first and made slow progress with Crawfish.
I had to stop eating because my ear started ringing in pain from the spiciness. My lips were trembling as I was eating but I couldn't stop.. The spiciness wasn't the type that hurts your tongue or makes you want to stop eating. I thoroughly appreciated the spiciness until I noticed the ringing pain in my ear. At this point, my lips were swollen and my earlobes were hot. I drank about 5-6 refills of cold water.
We didn't end up ordering more as I was getting full. When the food came out, I actually thought that the portion was small and that we'd need to order more. (The table next us ordered 7 pounds of seafood for 2 people, whereas we only ordered 2 pounds plus sides). The grease filled me and the spiciness stopped me from ordering more.
The bill was less than what I expected. About $25 a person.
MMMMM Cajun sauce on Shrmp, Lotus Root and Sausage. I am craving you...
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