A review of the \"Happy Crab Boiling Seafood and Bar\" in Seattle, featuring an all-you-can-eat brunch buffet that opens at 9:00 AM. The reviewer highlights the exceptional value, the freshness of the local seafood, and the unique inclusion of authentic Asian dishes alongside traditional seafood boil fare.
Good morning, it's about 8 50 in the morning and this is a really cool restaurant giant restaurant
Happy crab boiling seafood and bar. It's right on the waters
Of seattle look at this place
Yeah, a really pretty restaurant and the reason i'm here is because this place just started
And all you can eat seafood
And it starts believe it or not at nine o'clock in the morning buffet nine o'clock in the morning
But thank you so much. Wow, that's beautiful
Thank you
Wow
So check this out. So they have a buffet bar set up
We're gonna go check that out in a sec, but this is the made to order stuff blackened wild king salmon
King salmon is the good stuff here
Steak is included
Halibut
Crab cakes included check this out unlimited soup dumplings shrimp wontons
Noodles, have you ever seen this?
On a seafood buffet before the answer is no never been done
Never seen it before in the world like the sign said outside. You can get a one mimosa or wine
soft drinks included
This could be
Really really cool. All right. Let's go check out the buffet bar
So this is like a asian restaurant, so here we go on the buffet you have cocktail shrimp
Of course, this is seattle some dungeness crab. Oh, this is big. Look at this buffet bar
This is a big buffet bar
Salads fruits, of course desserts here
Oh, what is this?
Well, this is a sushi station sushi sashimi station it looks like
Oh, there's an omelet pasta station here and a sushi section
This is almost set up. I guess
It's getting set up
Oh, yeah crawfish
Snow crab mussels salmon
short ribs
eggs bitty
some cream cheese crepe
Sausage bacon, let's start
Like I already tell you this is a great value
for this buffet
It's a great value and check this out. This is all sorts of different sauces. They have here because this is a
Crab boil they got cajun sauce garlic sauce
This is the butter
Cajun and garlic
Try a little bit of clam chowder, too. This looks like a nice chunky clam chowder
Of course i'm the only person here nine o'clock in the morning, why would anyone else be here?
This is good clam chowder. Wow, it's really good clam chowder
There's steak with shiny pieces of clams inside
That's really good
Wow
All right muscles. I just want to try a little bit see if it's fresh. It's plump dunk it into
my cajun boil
Wow, okay, this is good. This is good. This is a good buffet
That sauce
It's more than legit
this is
awesome awesome
Seafood boil sauce like really good seafood boil sauce. Okay, this all looks great freaking short rib
Looks nice and juicy and fatty
I can't believe i'm gonna be able to get bian bian noodles at nine o'clock in the morning
This might be the only place in the world
Maybe outside of china you can get bian bian noodles at nine o'clock in the morning
That's good short rib cooked over a fire nice and charred
Oh, it's so good
Here we go. Let's get on with the crab snow crab, which usually costs a pretty penny
If you go to one of these cajun boil places
It's great
especially in the cajun sauce
I mean this stuff
Oh, the sauce is good. This is great seafood boil sauce
Love it, you know, you go to seafood bowl restaurants, you're probably easily dropping 50 60
All you can eat with snow crab
Usually snow crab will be a premium this place
90 bucks with snow crab with all the other stuff you're getting
Soup dumplings noodles. I'll tell you right now. It's already a good deal. I fully expect that this is gonna get a little messy
This is probably the best way
to eat some snow crab
And the sauce overall it's not very spicy they do have hot oil here if you want to make it more spicy I guess
But it tastes really good
wow, that's probably one of the most enjoyable cluster of snow crabs i've ever had and
My bian bian noodles just got here
You can choose between beef pork lamb
or vegetable
Beef bian bian noodles. This is a good portion of bian bian noodles
Wow hand pulled. Okay. This is fresh
for sure
Freshly pulled bian bian noodles covered in chili some cabbage in here. This smells pretty legit
Look at that
That's legit bian bian noodles a little vinegar
This is a place. This is a brunch buffet that i'm definitely at a disadvantage by coming
Um by myself because this is definitely gonna sit in my stomach for a while
I'm, not even mad though. It's honestly bian bian noodles for me
Same level as a crab
I mean this thing is gonna be as legit as anything you find
at a xian restaurant in seattle
noodle done
Let's get to the soup dumplings. Hmm. Wow. Okay
attention to detail look at this
They bring you over some shredded ginger
This is definitely the first time i've ever been to a buffet
Where soup dumpling is included and they bring you shredded ginger add some chinese vinegar
hot oil
this definitely looks like
Handmade soup dumplings. This is not store-bought i'm getting here
This is truffle
soup dumplings
I'm, glad they're a little on the smaller side so I can try more flavors but each basket six dumplings quite a bit of dumplings
It's really juicy
pretty juicy soup dumpling
You definitely taste the truffle flavor. It's not bad
I say for buffet soup dumplings though. It's pretty good. All right, so I tried the dumplings. I tried the noodle
Let's get the wonton
And the crab cake next let's go grab more stuff off the buffet
Oh, they got something for everybody here biscuits and gravy
This is cheesy potato with parmesan and cheddar
what
Are you kidding me? Roasted bone marrow
roasted bone marrow on a buffet
seafood fried rice
These are pretty good sized crawfish guys white wine clams. These look like manila clams. These look like fresh clams, too
Wow
Okay, you also have a sausage and corn potatoes if you wanted to go with
Um your cajun boil. There's also a rockfish fried fish. You can have some fish and chips if you want
Okay
this
Like here in seattle here in the seattle area. Yeah, this is definitely gonna be fresh
You can literally dig these up on the beach outside
This mashed potato looks good, too a little bit a little bit
fresh
These shucked oysters. Are you kidding me?
Oysters just a little bit of
lemon juice
Mm
awesome
And these definitely look like fresh manila clams
Yep
They actually might have dug these up outside
That's how fresh they taste
That's one great thing about this area
There's so much seafood that you have access to all sorts of different clams. There's gooey duck
There's dungeness crab another seafood lover's dream living here. So this is the seafood fried rice
Looks like some salmon cured salmon in here
Okay, you know what we gotta do i'm gonna put some bone marrow on the fried rice
Roasted bone marrow on seafood fried rice
If you ever want to level up your fried rice
Trust me add some roasted bone marrow to it. All right great round two
Round three some more snow crab and check out the size of this crawfish. It's pretty big size crawfish
Suck on the head
Usually at seafood boil places crawfish unless you're in like
Texas louisiana or somewhere alabama
The crawfish is not gonna be great
That's pretty good crawfish
I think a big portion of my time here
It's just gonna be spent dunking snow crab into their cajun sauce
Okay, a couple new dishes just came over
This is the wonton, this is the shrimp wonton sitting in hot oil
Hot it's okay. Yeah, not bad. It's definitely a meaty wonton
Crab cake. Ooh
Okay
This looks like a legit crab cake
Oh, this is
this looks like
like 90% crab
That's a really good crab cake this thing is like overwhelmingly more crab than cake
Three more things to try
On their made to order menu. I'm excited for the steak
You can 100% tell
That was homemade crab cake. They definitely scraped out the crab meat from the dungeons crab and made that crab cake
That was good. Wow. Okay. I just got a bit of great news
They had lobster like I think it might have been a promotional thing because they just started this uh this brunch
Lobster
I'm getting a lobster. That's like the ultimate prize for the brunch gods
No way
Yeah
Thank you
No way look like fresh lobsters. Whoa. Yeah. Thank you
Wow
Are you kidding me? This is best deal ever they brought me two lobsters. This was a live lobster 100%
This is not frozen at all fresh
freaking
lobster
all
real
And the steak looks pretty good, too. Oh my gosh the steak and lobster came at the same time surf and turf
on an early morning buffet
Lobster is definitely mogging a steak. Is that what the kids are calling nowadays mogging?
Mock the steak. Oh, wow
This is beautiful juicy looking all the guts included. That's where all the flavor is
Oh, man
This is freaking crazy guys. Oh some lobster roll in here as well
Dunk that in the cajun sauce cajun
lobster
included in this buffet
Fresh lobster, it's so good. It's so sweet. Oh my gosh. It's so good
This right here
The meat on the back of the head
Right here. This is good eating
Incredible
Look at the size of this tail meat
fresh lobster crab oyster buffet
at like nine ten o'clock in the morning on a
Cloudy seattle day overlooking the sound brunch in seattle does not get better than this right now. Whoa
That's a pretty good looking steak
like a really tender
Really tender looking steak. Yeah, just by cutting this you can tell
This is going to be a tender steak
It's good steak
Juicy tender
perfectly cooked steak
This is best surf and turf ever like legit it's not a throwaway steak
Next made to order dish. It's a seared halibut
It's okay simple seared halibut a little on the drier side
Last thing from the made to order menu
That I haven't tried
Is the seared?
blackened
King salmon, this is wild caught
King salmon, and this is a premium fish
Yeah, this is good I think from um
The entire made to order menu. My favorite thing has got to be the steak. That was an incredibly made cut of steak
um
Either the steak with a biang biang noodle
The biang biang noodle was legit. I was like truly authentic biang biang noodles. The steak was good. The crab cake's good
I think those are my three favorite things. I mean king salmon is good
Halibut is a little dry and then from the buffet bar itself. Um, the cajun sauce is
Awesome overall this place. We've got pretty fresh seafood
I mean the thing that pushed all over the top was the lobster. I mean you cannot beat a whole live lobster
It's unbeatable this place is starting to fill up i'm gonna hurry up and eat and clear the space for them and uh,
Talk outside. All right. I am stuffed overall. That was a phenomenal brunch. I mean, how can you look at this?
Look at look at that while you're eating
and not feel
At least 10% happier. I think overall the food is pretty on point like you come to a seafood brunch place
We're mainly here for the seafood. The seafood's good like snow crab's good
Dungeness crab came right out of the waters here for sure. Uh, manila clams 100% came from here
The oyster's fresh the lobster was definitely fresh that pushed it over the top. So overall
$99, um, you get one glass of wine or samosa or a soft drink. I think it's worth it
Well, I had like two whole fresh lobsters. It was definitely worth it for me
I think even without the lobsters, um, if you're a big fan of oysters
There's sushi sashimi all all sorts of different crabs. It's not boring like just crab dip and butter
There's actually cajun sauce that you can dunk it in which I highly recommend you do the steak was great
The bianbian noodles phenomenal and everything came out really quick not much of a dessert selection
But you're like an asian seafood buffet
At least for me dessert's not a focus for the seattle area for being on the water
The price is fair if you're really into seafood
I think you're gonna like this place and even like if the weather is better
You could have sat outside a couple people already started to sit outside. You can sit outside. I mean, this is
Beautiful you're on the sound eating fresh dungeons crab and clams. You're gonna have a good time
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