Crabby Claws Promotion The Bungalow Lone Pine Hotel Penang
Ever since Forest Grump listened intently to Bubba’s monologue, SmartDory has been hankering for the fruit of the sea. Crab Claws! Prawns, clams, and squids come to Mama!
So when Mr. Khoo invited the Little Fish over for some makan. All he said was
“Come to eat food with your hands for some finger-licking goodness.”
It was going to be a protein diet all the way, with some serious upload that Thursday during dinner at the Bungalow, Lone Pine Hotel.
Peals thunder and flashes of lightning lit the skies over Batu Ferringhi intermittently. It started raining!
Mrs. Khoo even remarked that it was because it was so hard to have SmartDory over for dinner.
Fish-eyed the grill station. It was Hot, hot, hot. And had a mackerel grilling on a piece of banana leaf. Yikes!
Two types of crabs!
“Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo.
Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich.
That- that’s about it,” said Bubba ~ Dialogue from the movie Forest Grump
Sweet bamboo clams.
Fresh Fish ready for grilling.
Cuttlefish and Squids
Squids and Cuttlefish
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Essential Tips for Grilling Seafood
Banana leaf line mussels and prawns being grilled with Indonesian Curry paste. Shellfish has a divine smell when cooking.
The Bungalow at Lone Pine Hotel hit on a winning formula. Back to basics.
A Simple concept.
Fresh ingredients.
Good wok, hey! Roughly translated as fire from the wok (Chinese frying pan)
Chef grilling the seafood with a banana leaf to heighten the fragrance.
Works for clams and prawns too!
We grilled the whole Fish.
Spicy Dipping Sauce for BBQ Seafood
The overpowering umami-bomb of salty fermented anchovy in the Fish sauce takes on a bright well-rounded flavor. Combined with lime juice and a little sugar, garlic slices and minced cilantro for a bit of freshness.
The kampong style Air Assam (Tamarind Sauce) has the thick milk of tamarind juice with pulp, sliced onions, red chillis, and bird’s eye chilies for added heat, a pinch of salt, sugar, fish sauce, and calamansi lime juice. Perfect for fried or grilled Fish.
The other slightly pungent great dipping sauce is the Nam Prik Gapi (Shrimp Paste Chili Dip) made with matured fermented shrimp paste, bird’s eye chilies, garlic, roughly chopped onions, palm sugar, and lime juice.
That’s just the sauces for the grilled Fish!
Garlic Dipping Sauce
The kampong style Air Assam
Nam Prik Gapi (Shrimp Paste Chili Dip)
How to Wear a Crabby Claws Apron to Eat Seafood
Krystal Khoo shows us how to don our Crabby Claws apron.
3 Choice Seafood Flavours for Crabby Claws Promotion
There are three choices of flavors for the seafood the choices;
Fragrant Indonesian Seafood Curry that has notes of lime, tamarind, bay leaves, galangal, lemongrass, red chillis, and bird’s eye chilies, shallots, garlic, turmeric, ginger, cumin powder cooked in thick coconut milk.
“Kam Heong” Sauce, which means “Golden Fragrance” in Cantonese, is a spicy dry sauce made from dried prawns, oyster sauce, soy sauce, curry powder, cornflour and heaps of curry leaves!
The sweet and Sour sauce has a fruity base tomato sauce or Ketchup, chili sauce, sugar for extra sweetness, rice vinegar for the tartness with soy sauce, and cornstarch for thickening.
SmartDory did some quick math and decided that Set A was something like 1Kg of seafood after it is cooked with the veggies!
The menu.
The menu.
A famished Mrs. Khoo and SmartDory Editor, Doris Lim shared Set A but couldn’t finish all!
The original Crabby Claws kung-fu poses by Mr. Khoo. Grabba Grabba.
Mr. Khoo and gang had no such problem uploading as evident in the Eat, Talk Later stance. Seriously digging in, these folk are enjoying themselves.
Happy faces look on in anticipation of digging in. Here’s how the glorious fruit of the sea is served. She poured directly on the tabletop. No worries, there a protective sheet was covering the table.
This is the Indonesian Curry flavored Crabby Claws Seafood Set. The rest were devoured the moment it hit the table.
Sweet and Sour sauce Crabby Claws!
Crabby Claws in dry style Kam Heong sauce.
Little Fish, the photographer, was just too slow and decided to shoot the veges for comparison.
Or maybe some succulent prawns instead.
A wefie to confirmed that Little Fish was there and safe from being grilled after making friends with Chefs Zaini, Tan, and Ang. That’s Chef Tan reacting to thunder!
Take Mom Out For a Crabby Claws Seafood Dinner
So just in case, you Peeps missed out on Mother’s Day Dinner on Sunday, why not make it up to Mom by heading over for some Seafood Dinner or Japanese Dinner.
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