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Because of the tremendous crowd and waiting situation, this systematic system was established to keep everyone in check and ensure that the crowd did not get out of control.
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The crabs had their own waiting area, too, except that their queue system was not quite as efficient.
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This must be where good crabs go when they did. Their shells are autographed by V.I.P. diners and then varnished and hung on walls.
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For a kitchen serving about 40 tables of hungry diners, it's surprisingly orderly for a coffee shop, although the bustle and clanging of woks was non-stop.
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Man tous (fried sweet buns) waiting in line to be served into hungry mouths. Again, not as systematic as the human queue system, but better than the crab situation.
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Soon, we will too be tearing into these pots of crab bee hoon (rice noodle) soup.
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Dish #1: Cold shellfish salad. The sliced onions added some zing, a palate refresher.
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Dish #2: Rojak chicken. I never imagined that fried chicken could taste so good with rojak sauce, but then again, when does fried chicken not taste good?
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Dish #3: Three-mushroom vegetables. This is the kind of dish you order to feel a little better about the extravagance of cholesterol from the others.
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Dish #4: Fried yam with scallop. You are watching Eling drop her yam into the dish of sweet sauce, and after she retrieved it, she took half the serving of sweet sauce with her yam thing.
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Side Dish #1: Man tous, to be dunked into the sauces that come with the crab dishes.
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Dish #5: Pandan leaf ribs. BBQ joints in the South Side of Chicago should think about adding this to their repertoire. It's really something.
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Dish #6: Butter crab. So, I'm making my way through all this food, when Janet announced that we've only been tasting appetisers. The main courses would be the two crab dishes.
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Dish #7: Seafood tofu. I felt bad for this dish because it was neglected for a while as everyone focused on the crab.
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Dish #8: The famous crab bee hoon soup. As if we needed more crab, but sure, we'll take two-and-something more kilograms. The soup was amazing -- you could taste crab just drinking it.
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Portions were scooped for everyone with gusto.
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Chris takes a crab apart.