Long seafood brunch at Holy Crab

Long seafood brunch at Holy Crab (Central)
Usually brunches finish around 3pm and by the time you get up, you end up missing brunch because it is 3pm by the time you get there.
Here it finishes at 5 so you have plenty of time to enjoy a seafood brunch.

At the entrance, there is live seafood with a pricelist and other items for sale such as Nuclear sauce.






There is a la carte brunch or the bottomless seafood bucket for $418.
I went for the seafood bucket where you get to choose two courses followed by the seafood.

If you are looking for Southern comforts you should try evenings because they have fried okra salad, watermelon consomme, Jambalaya and other dishes which I plan to try later.


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For the first course, we chose all three.
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Southern swimmer benedict:
American homemade herb breakfast cake topped with Alaskan salmon, southern style hollandaise and salmon roe.

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Southern love on a plate:
Homemade sausage patty with scrambled eggs on a buttermilk biscuit smothered in Southern style gravy.

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Crab and meat benedict:
American homemade Andouille and blue crab breakfast cake, topped with grilled sausage and poached egg in southern style hollandaise sauce.

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The second course was simpler, it was either caesar salad or fruits.


The fruits were rather sweet but there was tart yoghurt to balance it.
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Finally it was seafood which comes with five sauces: cocktail, tartar, honey mustard, Cajun mayonnaise and Sweet chili sauce.

To be honest, the broth at the bottom of the bucket tasted really nice when you dipped the seafood into it.
They give you aprons just like they do in America.






Prawns were huge. Lobsters were springy and the crabs were fresh.
All of the above were bottomless.
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There is a similar place that serves seafood in a bag in Hong Kong but there are more authentic Southern choices here.

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3/F, Cosmos Building, Lan Kwai Fong, Central

Honey Cajun chicken mozz walnut apple sauce wrap

I used to like the food at the Wan Chai branch before they closed down, so I rarely go to Oliver's these days.

Anyway happened to be nearby so decided to try the Honey Cajun chicken mozzarella walnut apple sauce wrap.

 

I was really disappointed because it did'nt taste as nice as I was expecting.
The apple sauce was too sweet and the overall taste was too salty and what made it worse was that it was quite expensive.
I just felt that the tastes had been adjusted to suit the locals especially with its location in Shatin.

 

 

It would have tasted great if the flavouring was not so intense because the paring of apple, walnuts and cajin chicken were good.
If they used fresh apples instead of apple sauce it would taste even more refreshing.

Mixed Mushroom Spaghetti in a Lemon Juice & Parsley Sauce @ Carnegies

Carnegies have made a great improvement since my last visit, they will display their menu outside early in the morning, so you can walk past and see whats on for lunch.

Also it is much appreciated they update their weekly menu on facebook.

I chose to eat today, because of the mixed mushroom spaghetti in Lemon juice and parsley sauce.
For starters ordered the romaine salad with cajun chicken

Mains:Grilled Chicken Steak with Garlic Sauce, French Fries, Carrots & Snow Peas
and Mixed Mushroom Spaghetti in a Lemon Juice & Parsley Sauce

Dessert: Coconut banana fritters with Rum sauce.

Cajun chicken salad:
pieces of romaine lettuce on a bed of sliced chicken breast covered in spicy cajun sauce.

The bread was cute, served in a dimsum container, the bread was crusty and chewy, and the butter was nice and salty.

Grilled chicken:
juicy chicken with french fries and veg, the chicken was thigh meat. ( I thought is was slighty chinese the way it had been cooked)

Lemon pasta:
pasta cooked just right and the sauce was nice and lemoney, certainly worth choosing today to come. However the parsley could have been chopped finer since the menu said lemon and parsley sauce. It was more like a sprig of parsley.

Banana fritter:
Slightly over fried, not so much coconut, but the rum sauce was good, slightly bitter.
reminded me of the Caribbean.

Overall the menu is well suited for westerners and asians, since one dish will be western, and the other sounds western but cooked in chinese style.