L'avenir: Cranky Crab The Seafood Restaurant with Louisiana Style

On 23rdNovember, I’ve got a chance to visited one of the best restaurant that located in Kelapa Gading. I wanna thanks to Zomato for invited me here to come to zomato foodie meetup. I’m always so excited for zomato foodie meetup, meeting new friends, talking, laughing and eating at the same time. The name of this restaurant is Cranky Crab. Cranky Crab is a seafood restaurant with Louisiana style, it served on the table without plate only use your own hands or maybe you could feeding each other use your girlfriend/boyfriend hand haha. I didn’t took a lot of photo for the interior because when I came it was already a lil bit crowded but I can tell you this place is quite big, there is a smoking room also a bar in it, and non smoking room for family and people who don’t like to smoke.

Interior

Since the owner tells us that this restaurant aimed for young consumer, they open at 11.00am-22.00pm on weekday and 11.00am-03.00am on weekend, which is great isn’t it?! You could hangout all night long with your friends. Before we were served with foods, we’ve got a chance to listen to Chef Darmawan explanation, he told us about how to choose a good crab to eat, you could press near bottom part of crab, if it is thick than a lot of meat inside it and it’s a good crab to eat, and if it’s not thick than you might be get a lil meat there. Well that’s a short explanation from Chef Darmawan.

Zomato Crew with Chef Darmawan

Now let’s get to the menu!

Mantau(IDR 15k) there were two kinds of mantau, steamed and fried mantau, I took the photos but I didn’t get a chance to tried them both because my eyes are directly focus to crabs, it really looks delicious with many variant sauces that they given

Steamed Mantau

Fried Mantau

Fishnet Fries(IDR 19.9k) it consist calamari with fries and served with delicious garlic sauce that will boost your appetite

Fishnet Fries

Famous Kudu Kudu Fish(IDR 18.9/ounce) it looks ugly, doesn’t it? Well don’t judge the book its cover, because you know why? Because cranky crab just turn this ugly fish into delicious popcorn bites, yup cranky crab processed the meat inside the fish and turn it to popcorn bites that you could eat with sauce or might be suitable enough to eat it with rice

Famous Kudu Kudu Fish

Popcorn Chicken(IDR 30k) a lil bit expensive I think for this type of chicken, because it was just a popcorn chicken, but you got what you paid for, it tasted real good and also crunchy

Popcorn Chicken

Calamary(IDR 55k) it tasted kinda same like fishnet fries just without garlic sauce that served along with it.

Calamary

Red Fried Rice looks so red, right? You will think this is really spicy, but not at all, it tasted good, great eventually, maybe cranky crab use a red rice to make this reddish fried rice but that’s just my thought because I didn’t even asked haha

Red Fried Rice

Mixbag 1(IDR 110k) it consist crayfish, prawn, mussels, clams, potatoes, corn on the cob and served with asian addict sauce which tasted amazing, the flavor, the fragrant aroma, they were perfect

Mixbag 1

Local Mud Crab

The crab that served to us were direct from Papua, it’s still fresh and alive.

There are 3 kinds of sauces which are Asian Addict, Lemon Pepper Junkie, and Garlic Madness also there are 5 kinds Indonesian Heritage Sauces which are Kepiting Asap, Saus Tiram, Angsio, Saus Padang and Black Pepper

Lemon Pepper Junkie(IDR 220k) it consist medium crab served with lemon pepper junkie sauce and a lil bit tasted from garlic and it tasted sour since they made the sauce with lemon

Lemon Pepper Junkie

Angsio(IDR 220K) it consist medium crab served with angsio sauce, I think it tasted pretty much same just without a lemon thing

Angsio

Blackpepper(IDR 220k) it consist medium crab served with blackpepper sauce, if you look from the photo the crab was quite big and I think it’s shareable for two people, it tasty and spicy, this one was great even though it was spicy I think it’s gonna make you addicted

Blackpepper

Gyutan Don(IDR 78K) it consist beef tongue and egg, scrambled egg actually, the beef tongue was grilled, it tasted good and juicy, the egg just like a regular egg nothing special from it. If you wanna get rid of egg you could order it without egg and pay it for IDR 68k

Gyutan Don

Fish and Chips this dish came because shinta and adit were running late, seriously they came in the bloody injured time haha, it tasted great, the fish and chips were cooked well

Fish and Chips

Cranky Crab has special drinks, it called Flying Beer. It’s a mix between fruit juice and beer on top of it. There are three types of these drinks, the red one is called tropic thunder, the green one is called green fairy, and the white one is called citrus mojito