long beach seafood

singapore

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east coast park in singapore is a beautiful park by the water with a hawker center for street food, a huge man-made lake with a waterskiing machine (a rope will pull you in a loop around the very large lake), and the east coast seafood centre which contains several seafood restaurants, including long beach seafood. we saw a few people ordering the black pepper crab, which was apparently invented at this restaurant, but we wanted the chili crab.

fatty crab in nyc has its own version of the dish, but it is more expensive and uses one small crab. plus, the singapore version has crab meat in the chili sauce itself. the sauce is extremely spicy. for me, at least. derek and the rest of the table happily dug in. i enjoyed the fact that the chili crab was served with fried mantou and i used that to dip into the crab-laden sauce. a much milder option, but still delicious. for dessert, they served an amazing almond jelly with longan pieces - very refreshing after all that spicy food.