Soft Shell Crab - it's the season in NY !

It's soft shell crab season in the East Coast. Could not miss the opportunity to have a couple while here - went to Great NY Noodletown which has been raved for the crabs in nyt and yelp... Enjoyed them !

I thought soft shell was a different species of crab until I googled it and found out it's just regular crab in a different stage of their lifecycle. Crabs have to molt as they grow bigger.. i.e they have get out of their current shell and they've outgrown it. The soft shell crab is basically just the cran which just got out of their old shell. Their body hardens within a few hours of molting with a new shell if they stay in water. So it's tough to harvest them and hence not a year round delicacy.

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Lunch at Lime Tree on 6th and Irving st

I had a great lunch at lime tree southeast asian cuisine restaurant today (http://www.limetreesf.com).

The place is very small and very easy to miss. The door is below a set of stairs and the restaurant is basically in a basement, but the food is very good. Every Saturday and Sunday, they have a crab special. We had the Singaporean Chili Crab, the Malaysia Laksa, singaporean curry noodles, Fried Rice (yeah.. very un-original) and Fried Corn Fritters.

Had great company for lunch - Deepti, Elia and Cristina. Deepti was treating me for lunch for a belated birthday treat! Thanks Deepti !

After lunch, we walked to Golden Gate Park, where SF Opera was performing for free.

 

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Singaporean Food @ Lee Hou with Kuben and Lia

Kuben and Lia, two friends from university, were in San Francisco for a conference a couple of weeks ago. Took them to Lee Hou (http://www.yelp.com/biz/lee-hou-restaurant-san-francisco) on Clement Street for some good Singaporean Food. The singapore curry chicken was the best ever curry I've had !! The yelp reviews don't look so good, but I loved the food !!

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Chinese Dinner on Sunday night with Levi and Greg

After Stern Grove yesterday, we decided to go have some dinner. As we were in the neighborhood, we decided to go to the Chinatown in the Richmond (Clement Street). We found this place around 5th and Clement - a Singaporean/Malaysian place, which I did not note the name (but its next to Genki, the japanese crepe place and exactly opposite of Burma Superstar)

We had the Black Pepper Crab - (entire big crab  - for $15.99, I think its a bargain as everywhere I have seen, Crab dishes usually cost a lot more) and we had the fresh Steamed Black Bass.

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