This is my first crab-eating experience in Singapore. One of the things that Singapore is famous for is their Chilli Crab – along with Singapore’s Katong Laksa and Singapore Sling among other things.
Anyway, I never thought I’d have the chance to try their crab here but thanks to a time when Elaynne mentioned about this Crab Bee Hoon place in AMK, we eventually ended up going there. The planning stage was quite confusing as it involves friend’s of friends. It started off with just Elaynne, Zhi Sin and Huei Wenn (Elaynne’s childhood friend) and that Zhi Sin owes Huei Wenn a meal. So, they decided to go for this Crab Bee Hoon place. But there were too few of them to eat it, so Elaynne thought of asking me along since I know Huei Wenn too from Yuet Min. And since she asked me (and yinsin), well.. it ended up asking the rest of the people; (Elaynne’s friends) Yi Wang, Wai Seng along with (Huei Wenn’s friends) Yuet Min and Marc.
There were supposed to be more people though but many couldn’t make it in the end.. so, it was just 9 of us. It took us 90min to travel from NTU to AMK. The place is called Melbenn and it’s located at AMK Block 233 and I tell you, the queue over there when we were there was freakingly long. They took our orders while queuing up and after getting out seats, we were told to wait for about 1 hour for the crabs to be ready.. But the wait was quite worth it. The crabs were HUGE!!
We ordered THREE crabs
The Bee Hoon Crab, Butter Crab and Chilli Crab.
Bee Hoon Crab (Large)
Butter Crab (Large)
Chilli Crab (Medium)
And when they say it’s large, it REALLY REALLY huge! Like Big ASS huge!
The large crab claw really can fill one’s stomach. It has so much meat in it. Biggest crab claw I’ve eaten
Of course, we ordered some other stuff like
Thai Chicken (They call it Playboy Chicken)
Fried Beancurd
Fried Mantao
And the food? It was great! The crabs were really fresh. The sauce from the chilli crab is superb! When dip with the friend mantao.. Woah, damn syiok. This is one of the few times that I actually enjoyed crab. Normally, the not-so-fresh crabs have their meats sticking to the shell but this one, can easily separate the meat from the shell.
Of course, it’s not just about the food only. It was also one of the rare occasions where I can catch up with my Ipoh friend, yuet min. Think the last time I saw her was end of last year. Apparently, everyone is doing quite well in their own lifes. Stable career and relationships. Good to hear, good to hear.
