For all those crab lovers out there, I found a very very beri beri good lobang man. That is the stall I will recommend now. Some people might have heard before Don’s pie, be it chicken pie, Sheppard’s pie, but I bet few of you all have heard that the Don’s Pie Club actually serve crab!!!! OMG!!!! Fan-F!@#$ing-tastic!!!! Located @ 20 Cross Street, #01-34/35/36, China Square, this little alcove serves one of the best crab dishes I have tasted so far.
They serve mainly 3 different kinds of crab dishes; the black pepper crab bee hoon, the claypot crab bee hoon and the crab mee sua. Each dish is unique in its own way but 1 thing is for sure, the crab they used is fresh Sri Lankan crab and each portion contains 1 whole crab! WOW!!!!
The black pepper crab bee hoon is a testament to how bee hoon and black pepper crab can combine to give such a magnificent masterpiece. Using Sri Lankan crab (I think), thin bee hoon, and their special black pepper sauce, they have created a dish so nice that I would want to sing “You raise me up” by Josh Groban after having my first bite. You can actually taste black pepper sauce and at the same taste the freshness of the crab. It is the best of both worlds!!! When the black pepper sauce combines with the crab, transforms the sauce into very delicious crab flavour black pepper gravy. When this gravy mixes with the bee hoon, it was fabulous. The bee hoon is soaked with black pepper aroma with a tingly crab flavour.
The claypot crab bee hoon looks surprisingly like the fish head bee hoon, but instead of fish, it is crab!!! Fish head bee hoon is already tasty enough; imagine if it is replaced by crab, it is just heavenly. BUT!!! Wait a minute, there is no need for imagination! There is such a dish in existence. I can safely say that this claypot crab bee hoon can rival any fish head bee hoon. The soup is superb (big fan of soup); it has the crab taste and the fish head bee hoon soup taste. This blend makes the soup rich. The ginger in it brings out the soup even more, giving it a tangy taste, thus making it less ger lart.
Lastly, there is the crab mee sua. Some famous person quoted “do something every day that surprises you”. Well after eating this crab mee sua, it surprised me. It brought me to a whole different level of taste. The richness and the essence of the crab actually sipped into every strand of mee sua and the gravy. The gravy looks like the normal mee sua dish with the egg beat into it, but the essence of the crab blends into the gravy and made it taste something like the crabmeat shark fins soup (without the shark fin of course, p . s do not really like to eat shark’s fin). The gravy is a bit spicy thus making it even better than the normal gravy poured on the mee sua in certain mee sua dishes. Wonderful partnership!!!
One plate or bowl or claypot of this crab dishes cost $16.00. Sounds pricey? Well it is not. The portion is rather huge. Even for me, I have difficulty in finishing it by myself (trust me, I am not kidding). One portion can be shared among at least 2 people or at most 3 people. So………GO CHECK IT OUT MAN!!!!