crab heaven!

I've been looking back at photos of food of past trips I've taken in the last few months, and I came across... dungeness crabs! Anyone who knows me knows that I love crabs. I love the flavor and that lovely lump crabmeat that you get to once you've done that hard work of peeling/cracking the shell.

On a recent trip to San Francisco in March, a group of friends and I satisfied my crab craving. Yes, I have crab cravings. It must come from growing up on the gulf coast. Anyway, we satisfied this crab craving... asian style. We went to PPQ Dungeness Island in the Richmond neighborhood of SF. Long wait, service was bleh, but the crabs were excellent.


There's something about peppercorn garlic dungeness crab and something even better about the chilli pepper garlic dungeness crab. The dash of spicy umph makes it. The crab is breaded and fried, then stirfried with garlic and the chilli pepper. It was absoloutley delish! The crabmeat was tender and juicy and retained the crab flavor. I wanted to gnaw off the fried breading on the shell b/c of the flavor. Needless to say, there were no survivors. All crab was consumed. If you can make room, the garlic noodles were great. They were buttery and super garlicky. A good side with the tender crabmeat. I'm craving crabs now....