/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18132955]

Fly-over here.

A seafood restaurant opened up near me recently and I decided to give it a shot.

>Go up to the counter, they took cash upfront
>Order 1.5 lbs of mussels, shrimp, and crab
>Ask for extra spicy cajun, corn and potatoes included
>They tell me to sit wherever.
>Grab the first booth I can
>The "waiter" comes out with a garbage bag and a bucket
>Plops it on my table
>Hands me a tiny fork and a nutcracker
>"Enjoy"
>Walks off
It tasted great and was spicy enough that my face still hurts.
But that was one of the sloppiest messes I've ever dealt with.

Is... is this normal?

[Anonymous No.18132974]

I, too, enjoy making fake stories to post on 4channel and then vehemently insisting they're true while never providing any proof.

[Anonymous No.18132979]

>>18132974
Sorry I didn't take a picture of it at the time, anon.
I don't know what to tell you. All I know is that I spent $30+ on a garbage bag full of canjun soup with shell fish mixed in and told to go at it.

I'm not even complaining. I'm just confused.

[Anonymous No.18132981]

>>18132955
Yup, that's about as normal as the "essence of wetness"

[Anonymous No.18132983]

>>18132955
Yes, seafood boil is messy. So are crab joints if you ever go to one on the east coast. They just bring your table a fuckton of crabs and you get utensils and crackers, maybe a plate and go to town.

[Anonymous No.18132988]

Seafood is always better eaten at home or by the pier, unless you're eating it at those fancy places that have shelled and boned everything ahead of time before they plate it

[Anonymous No.18132992]

>>18132979
"Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQW03UFqQw

[Anonymous No.18133462]

>>18132955
yup how it works, if you get steamed crabs on the east coast, theyll dump them out on a paper covered table in the middle and your utensils are a plastic knife, fork and mallet. Good shit

[Anonymous No.18133473]

>>18133462
OBEY

[Anonymous No.18133499]

>>18132955
Yes, and it's incredible. Love a good crab/lobster/crawdad/whatever boil, me. "Seafood", however, is a broad term, not just limited to boils. Fresh, grilled fish, sushi, Koreans have a bunch of spicy seafood stews, and a really good snapper dish, and really the possibilities with seafood are endless. You should leave your flyover state for a few days and head somewhere near the ocean, and eat a lot of different seafood dishes.
For me, Miami and Clearwater have the best seafood in the country. Seattle is great if you plan on cooking it yourself, the fish market is fantastic but most restaurants in Seattle genuinely suck, not what you'd expect from such a snobby place. Louisiana is great for food in general.

[Anonymous No.18133580]

>>18133499
>"Seafood", however, is a broad term, not just limited to boils.
I'm trying to figure out specifically what it was.
It used to be a Chinese restaurant at one point, and the owners are still asian.
And the name of the place was "LA JUICY SEAFOOD" or something.

I'm sure there's some kind of significance in piecing that all together, but I've got no real context for any of that. This whole thing is alien to me, but I'll be damned if I don't go back at some point.

[Anonymous No.18133814]

>>18132955
This is common. I have had the same experience. Before plastics they probably came in wax paper.

[Anonymous No.18133822]

>>18133580
It might help to start with a location, for instance I can start with chilling out with a girlfriend in Florida on the Atlantic coast, what did we get, conch fritters during a hot day. Do I know exactly the location, no or I wouldn't be asking.

[Anonymous No.18133834]

>>18133814
Could be newspapers, some fags from the UK think that wrapping fish in the dailymail is posh.