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A restaurant with no knives and no forks

By on November 4, 2015

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This is a Combo bag (¥6,500 with tax for 3 people). The staff puts all the seafood in a plastic bag, shakes it and dumps it at the center of the table. What’s inside: Crabs 400 grams, Shrimps 20 grams, Mussels 200 grams, Potato, Corn, and Carrots. The sauce in the photo is Cajun. (3 types of sauce available). A single order is ¥2,500.

When Kojima Yoshio, president of Meal Works, had dinner at Dancing Crab restaurant in Singapore, he was smitten by the charm of eating crabs with bare hands, he decided to open a franchise in Tokyo.

Up until now, eating crabs by hand has been alien to other cultures. The Japanese for example are more inclined to present a crab dish already dressed without the shells.

In New Orleans, it is common for families to sit around a large dining table with newspapers spread the entire length and feast with crabs by hand. Crabs are put at the center of the table where each person helps himself.

Only on its first year since it opened in October 2014, the Louisiana-inspired seafood restaurant in Shinjuku has attracted great interest among  foodies looking for a different dining experience in Tokyo. It has in fact become risky to swing by without a reservation.

Dancing Crab serves Cajun style seafood. The experience is so much like eating at an authentic New Orleans restaurant – very casual and fun. You order a bunch of seafood (scallops, shrimps, octopus, corn, potatoes) in a bag and choose your sauce. Then, the server shakes the bag to evenly distribute the sauce to the seafood.  The digging begins when the seafood is spread at the center of the table.

Dancing Crab

DANCING CRAB

http://dancingcrab.jp/
Shinjuku Nowa Building 2nd floor
Shinjuku 2037-12
Tokyo 160-0022
Tel. 03-6380-5151

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