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Four of us made a reservation and checked out the Weekend All You Can Eat brunch. Definitely good value for money if you’re seriously into seafood but these people would be hung, drawn and quartered for calling this stuff “Low Country Boil with bell peppers, onion, celery; “The holy trinity”. It’s like offering “Classic French onion soup“ and serving it with white bread and American cheese on top. It’s an insult to the French and they get insulted enough already.Low country boil is a classic Sou
Low country boil is a classic Southern American/Cajun stew that BY LAW must have Old Bay seasoning or at least crab boil seasoning, besides the Holy Trinity of vegies. This had none of that; no seasoning and no veggies. Just bland boiled seafood. Very disappointing if you ever had Low Country Boiled seafood ... or had a mother that loved you enough to put salt in the boiling water.
Are these the same guys who had Blue Smoke Bar-B-Que that was on the 3rd floor of Grand Progress Building, right next door to Holy Crab? It would seem so as both have no idea what southern cooking is.
Now that the main complaint is out of the way, on the rest of the experience.
They advertise a choice of crab, shrimp or lobster. On this day, they also had all you can eat clams. So, being 4 of us, we got 1 of each. Plenty to eat except for the guy who ordered the clams. After 2 pails of clams (they are really quite small but it’s all you can eat so no problem), they announced they were all out. OK, he switched to lobster. And then on the way out, we passed the tanks of seafood, 2 of which were full of clams. WTF? If you want to offer All You Can Eat, then you should have ample supply or at least not cut me off when you have a ready supply. It’s just lazy that they keep half for the dinner rush. Running out, ORDER MORE. It’s called stock management.
Along with the All You Can Eat seafood, you get 2 other courses. First, a choice of biscuits and sausage gravy, Crab benedict or herb cake benedict. All were we well received but I love the heart clogging biscuits and sausage gravy so I ordered it. It arrived while we were deep in conversation and I was 2 bits into it before I realized they served me crab benedict instead. Sh*t, I was really looking forward to the biscuits.
2nd course was a fruit salad or Caesar salad. My Caesar salad had almost no dressing at all and was disappointing. I heard the fruit salad was good. Hard to screw it up; cut fruit, put in bowl. Simple.
Oddly enough, the highlight of the day was the holy punch. Very nice, little sweet and refreshing. Great for all that seafood. At $180 a jug, it’s a bit pricy for fruit juice but a worth it to me.
Total cost, $2700 for 4 ($675 each) is OK if you can gobble down mass quantities of quality seafood but I would have paid more to get REAL Low Country Boil, or at least not to have been tricked in by their deceitful advertising.
I might go back, especially if they offered REAL Low Country Boil but I know what I’m going to get. On second hand, I can a get all you can eat seafood anywhere in town with additional choices. After all, this is Hong Kong and life is too short to eat bad food.
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