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| - This place is not for everyone, but if you can handle ripping apart shellfish with your bare hands, you are in for an amazing treat. I'm hesitant on such things myself, but once I managed to get past that, and get the meat out of the crawfish and muss it around in the amazing sauce, I was hooked.
The experience: it's a simple clean place. You order some type of shellfish (crawfish, shrimp, crab), a type of sauce (I go with the hot & juicy special), and tell them what else you want thrown in... potatoes, corn, sausage (I recommend all three). A few minutes later they bring out a big plastic bag filled with the goodies and they plop it on your table. No plate, no utensils: just rip in and enjoy. You're going to get messy, but they provide a bib and there's paper towel rolls at each table. Make sure you do not neglect to get the sauce all over everything you put in your mouth.
I recommend washing it down with an ice cold Blue Moon.
They do also have fish & chips, and some pretty great chicken wings, so you don't have to get messy to enjoy a meal here. But then you're kind of missing out on what makes it special.
I should mention that unless you like pain, you should order "medium". Their "spicy" is truly hot, and not some watered down notion of "spicy". My Korean relatives agree. Their "extra spicy" is reserved only for the completely fearless.
Also, I recently have tried the Snow Crab -- very tasty and satisfying, with larger chunks of meat than you can get from a crawfish. Good eating!
Again, if you're squeemish about this kind of thing, it might not be the place for you. Also unlikely to go over well on a first date with it's enormous garlic content. But it is unquestionably super delicious, and if you think you can handle it, you should definitely give it a shot.
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