Dinner at Crab House, Ipoh Garden East.

Last weekends there is a surprise visitor to our family, hence we had our dinner with him nearby our house at the Ipoh Garden East, in fact, the restaurant is just walking distant from our house, just across the street and then voila - you have reached Crab House. I believe Crab House is in fact quite popular or famous, well, at least among the people around the area. When we go inside the restaurant, all the tables are fully booked, but one of the person in charge in the restaurant give us a table because the customer will only be there after 8 p.m, so we kinda have about an hour and a half.

That was actually my second visit to the restaurant, the first was lunch session and even then, it seems packed at that time. So, we ordered the signature chicken dish, vegetable, toufu, lala as well as some crabs - since we are eating at the Crab House, definitely we need to try out the specialty of the house. 

The toufu that we ordered is pretty nice, although I do not know what it is called, since I'm not the one ordering, my father did the dish ordering. The toufu is fresh - an indication that the restaurant business must be good that they don't keep toufu overnight. The sauce that mixed to the toufu with small shrimp and beans is indeed a good match to the toufu, giving the plain taste of the toufu some "flavour".

I am not sure what was the signature chicken dish but what I can say is that this signature chicken dish is special. First of all, the chicken is boneless, and most importantly, the chicken was flatten until it looks like only the chicken skin, but there some meat underneath, and it does taste nice. The meat was juicy as well as properly marinated.

The vegetable dish that we ordered is called "Belacan Kangkung" or direct translated to english as Chinese water spinach with shrimp paste. The shrimp paste taste is not too strong, but surprisingly taste good enough with the Chinese water spinach. I guess, just the taste preference, I would say, maybe Caucasians might find it tasty as well without the fear of the strong smell of the shrimp paste. A true Malaysian food indeed.

And finally, the specialty of the house, the crab. The crab is cooked with oyster sauce, I would assume, very conservative and normal way of cooking crab or prawns. One thing I hate eating crab is that we need to hammer the crab so that we can get the meat, but then again, this is why people enjoy eating crab. I won't say that I know how to test the freshness of the crab, but the claw meat is mild and delicious - just need the effort to suck the meat out, the crab body meat is thick and rich and soft. Overall, I would say that I like the crab dish - maybe I'm just a seafood lover, but definitely I will go there again some other time with and recommend friends to go to this place.