OH CRAB

Fully Loaded and At Your Service

By gent

January 23^rd, 2014

Many moons ago, I had a teacher who taught me how to properly use a fully manual film camera and who showed me how to master light. He forced me to waste hundreds of film where all I got was black or white frames.

He forced me to shoot from the heart.

This is that man that I shot with my digital camera on almost auto settings. Shame is not something I feel. Much pride I already have in this man I'm fortunate enough to call a friend.

Recently he called a couple of us up announcing a new foodie establishment he now helps oversee as part of a family business in the vicinity of East Coast Road where you’ll probably never go hungry unless you’re an asshole. Seafood lovers, I'm sure you've at least heard of Cajun Kings and Crab in da Bag. For the more-travelled ones, you'd no doubt find this familiar to The Boiling Crab in the States.

He calls this place Full Of Crab.

Uh oh.

I've been in marketing for the better part of the last decade so I hope you can see how calling it Full Of Crab is simply inviting any disapproving press to latch on to the obvious headline. True to his spirit though, he told me to fuck off and then invited me to eat. These are the best kinds of friends.

He offered me a shrimp.

I had about 7 more.

He offered us single servings of King Crab legs and Sri Lankan crabs doused in what they called the Fully Loaded sauce.

We had two more.

Fun, we had 9 (approx.) servings of.

The decor, no one could have enough of.

So much so I decided to feature a couple more with doodles on the panels contributed by visitors. I have no doubt your kid(s) and the kid inside you will enjoy an experience here.

If you came here expecting any kind of food review akin to those in food blogs, I'm afraid I have a much more refined palette for experiences that take me places rather than a limited vocabulary to describe food with. Above all, my standards of how foods should taste like is mine alone and not for me to convince you with.

What I implore you to do however, is give yourself and Full Of Crab at 195 East Coast Road, Singapore a chance each. Be prepared to get dirty. Be prepared to let loose. Take your best friends. End your family day-out here. Bring a date you don't have to coddle. You just might have an experience that would keep you going back for more, and perhaps even find out about yourself in the process. You might even finally realise you deserve a better partner and I'll be in the booth next to yours giving you a finger-licking spicy-Cajun-saucy high five.