Best Heart Attack In a Bag: A Restaurant Review
Aug 15th, 2007 by msdanielle
On any given Tuesday, Gary and I, and his sister Sophia, trek to the local golf range so they can practice and so I can hack away at a medium-sized bucket of balls. But yesterday wasn’t just any given Tuesday. It was the beginning of a new chapter for Gary, who’s just accepted a new position as Director of Internet Marketing for a company in Los Angeles. (Yay! Congrats to Gary!) So he chose to celebrate with a night of big eating. The place — an up-and-coming cajun-style seafood restaurant called The Boiling Crab.
We chose the new Alhambra location since it’s close to Gary’s house, and by 7:45 the place was already packed with a handful of parties waiting to be seated. The 30-minute wait was well worth it, since it gets way busier on the weekends. Our waitress quickly tied our bibs around our necks once we were seated, which made us all giddy — we were starving. It took us only a minute or so to order since we just ran down the menu and rattled off a bunch of stuff we wanted to try.
The best part about The Boiling Crab is when you order shellfish, they drop your order on the table in a steaming bag, which contains a mash-up of seafood, seasoning and other goodies. Just tear open the bag and have at it. No plates, no utensils, no rules. We ordered an exorbitant amount of food which we nearly killed, but it took us until 10:00 to mow through it. The mounds of empty shellfish, corn cobs and sopping napkins were enough to get stares from all the other customers since we’d clearly eaten more than any other table in the restaurant. But we didn’t care, our bellies were happy.
So you might be wondering what we ordered, right? Well, I’ll let Gary tell you. You’ll have to check out his blog to see exactly what we ordered from the menu. He should be posting the details soon along with pictures of the mounds of empty shells.
As I’m writing this, it’s nearly 2am and I’m still full. Who knows if I’ll even eat tomorrow. They pretty much dropped a heart-attack-in-a-bag on our table, since our seafood was mixed with a sauce they call “The Big Sha-Bang.” Apparently it’s a mixture of all the other sauces combined — garlic butter, lemon pepper, and ragin cajun. Yep, like I said…a heart attack in a bag. But it was one of the best heart attacks in a bag I’ve ever had, and I highly recommend everyone else to try it out, if possible. I prefer the crab and shrimp over the crawfish and oysters, but that’s just me.
Overall it was a great experience. It’s like I was five years old and my mom just told me I could stick my hand in the birthday cake. No holds barred, dirty, yummy fun. As for our official ratings, Sophia was least impressed but still gave it a great review. She’s a huge fan of crab so her smile was ear to ear mid-meal. She nearly hit the wall but I encouraged her to keep going, and just bust straight through it. I felt a little bad afterward when she was stuck to the couch, moaning about her stomach being so full…but I was still proud of her. Besides, we were all in the same boat. Gary, on the other hand, needed no encouragement.
Official Ratings:
Sophia: 8.5 of 10
Danielle: 9 of 10
Gary: 10 of 10
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Congrats to Gary for his promotion, and congrats to you all for consuming half-an-ocean’s worth of food
Reiko and I will have to check this place out if we pass through Alhambra
thanks jason . . . . you definitely have to check it out . . . you’ll be on the famous Valley Blvd . . home of all the best asian food in SoCal!
Man that sounds really good…
I’m curious, does anyone ever recognize you or Gary in public after having read your blog??
people read our blogs?!
hahaha…
yea some girl pointed at gary and ran up yelling “oh man, you’re The Legendary!”
juuuuust playin…..
she wasn’t yelling at me because of my blog . . .
. . woo woo!
you are such a boy
I’m still waiting for my first “public sighting”.. it’s gonna be exciting!
HAHA I love how Gary gave it 10/10 while the girls didn’t quite go that far… but as for us guys, if it fills us up good then it’s all good and we get extremely happy.
filled with sha-bang is even better! LOL
the girls were looking too much into relativity . . . . garlic already gets 2 points . . it’s man law!
Looking pretty in the picture!
. I wonder the same thing as Jon Lee, I guess I would recognize being a hard core fan! lol. That sounds like a good deal of sea food!
I was gonna put the list of stuff we ate on my blog, but since D took the initiative to write this, I’m gonna send her the pictures and have her post them up . . . . just to let y’all know . . . we ate 3 dungeness crab, 1lb of shrimp, hot links, 3 corns on the cob, half a dozen oysters, half a dozen wings, fried catfish w/ cajun fries, and 3 tasty beverages to wash everything down . . . . the shabang sauce was friggin awesome and I still wreak of garlic . . . the morning garlic breath is definitely worse than the morning vodka breath . . . hahahaha . . . . good times!
i am just getting over food poisoning just what i need Danielle!
I think I just threw up in mouth a little bit. Actually, that looks really good.
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OMG that sounds so good , worth having a heart attack LOL
Peace!
You look like my friend’s twin, except she’s in Melbourne Australia.
Interesting blog by the way.
If you were talking about my Blog, Thank you, If not cool too….
I still would have that heart attack food….
Peace!
I like sea food anyway. But last time I ate big lobster, I get my skin turning read and itchy because of allergic problem.