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

85 South rules

85 South (Central)
85 South is an American diner offering Carolina barbeque fare of pulled pork and ribs.



There is a guy with a really nice Southern accent and looks cute when he smiles, he doesnt often smile but he smiled at me , aren't I lucky!!
Again I was not hungry so I just got the BBQ sandwich tray but on my next visit I am definitely going to try the Mac & Cheese, Hush Puppies and Filthy Rice.
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Lemonade:

I love their lemonade which comes from the metal dispenser and the classic red plastic cup.

It was refreshing and tasted a bit like lemon squash.
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BBQ Sandwich Tray:

It was lovely soft pulled pork and slaw in between the soft bun.

The pork was complemented nicely by the finely diced apple slaw.

The chips were gorgeous because they were seasoned with Southern spices.
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Sauces:
On the table they have three types of sauces representing the South, East and West of Carolina:
‘South Sauce’ - honey mustard barbecue flavour
‘West Sauce’ - tomato and barbecue flavour
‘East Sauce’ - vinegar and peppery flavour


My favourite sauce was the East and the West.
They also have Texas sauce too.


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Price: $1xx
Service: ok
Service charge: no
Yummy factor: great
Napkins provided: yes
Toilets: yes
English Menu: Yes
Air Conditioning: Yes
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Restoration at Island East Markets

Restoration (Central)

Nearly every week I will visit IEM to see what goodies there are in store.

I was looking forward to IEM this time because Restoration was there.
I missed their gumbo last week because they did not promote it on Facebook.
It would be useful if restaurants could promote what they will have because if it is good people will come!!


Found out they had gumbo this week so this was what I went for!!
I wanted to try the ribs, but it's hard eating them standing up without knives and forks.



To be honest, I have not had much luck with Restoration because every tuesday they have the all you can eat fried chicken and I happen to be busy.

I love gumbo and the last time I had it was at Blue Smoke BBQ which closed down, but the good thing is that the chef from Blue Smoke works at Restoration.
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Classic gumbo with seafood and crawfish


It was PIPING hot and I could barely hold the cup.
Anyway, it was so tasty and the spicyness was just right with pieces of crawfish, sausage meat in it and the lovely spring onions on top.
The rice blended in nicely and made it wholesome and filling.
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