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| - I've long been jealous of similar places in Toronto and Vancouver, and was really, really looking forward to eat tons of seafood with my bare hands. So when my parents came to visit last week, I jumped on the occasion and we all went there for dinner.
It was a Thursday night, but there was only two other occupied tables. We sat down and the waiter kindly explained the menu. Basically, you order by the pound, choose the flavor, then the spiciness level. Add-ons include potatoes, corn, okras, lotus roots, chicken wings, fries, etc. Not sure how much to order, we got a pound each of snow crab, mussels, and clams. We added to it potatoes, corn, lotus roots and okras (one portion each). The veggies seemed quite expensive, but we assumed that the prices reflected the portion size.
The restaurant is quite well decorated, and the plastic bibs were fun to use. The food came as we were taking photos of each other being silly. My first impression was how delicious the food smelled - then I realised how little we had actually ordered. I didn't realize that one pound of snow crab is basically two sets of legs... I can eat two sets just by myself, so splitting it among three people was going to be awkward. For that price, we would have been much better off buying fresher products and cooking it ourselves. Anyways. The veggies were very good, but also small in portion. They forgot our order of lotus roots.
It was ok for the service, food quality and novelty aspect. But I wouldn't go back, because spending ~65$ for so little food is insane. I mean, 2.50$ for two potato halves?!? That's the price for 4 pounds of potatoes right now!!
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