Crabbie weekend

I can't stop thinking about the butter crabs at Mellben Seafood Restaurant since the last time I ate them. Mellben is a household name to any crab lovers in Singapore. It is a tze-cha stall at Ang Mo Kio that specialises in crabs. And truly, you'll be amazed at the variety of crab dishes they offer. In addition to the traditional chilli, black pepper and steamed crabs, they're famous for their signature claypot crab bee-hoon soup (apparently they boil tons of small crabs for many hours resulting in a heavenly and full-bodied broth that is filled with only the sweetness of crabs), as well as a wide selection including dried chilli crab, curry crab, sambal crabs, white pepper and salt crab, and of course, my all-time favourite creamy butter crabs!

So, on the pretext of celebrating my SIL's birthday, we trooped to Ang Mo Kio to da bao the 6-legged creatures. We had high hopes and once again we were not disappointed. The crabs were gigantic and whole, meat was sweet, succulent and firm to the bite. The sauce could not be more perfect, imagine the crabs deep-fried with generous portions of butter and crab roe! Yes, yes, super sinful, but I tell you it was worth every single calorie! Indeed a heavenly dish, fit for any celestial king!