Somebody Help This Poor Girl: Typhoon Shelter Crab

Posted on December 28th, 2009 1:30pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Restaurant News

I’ve gotta run. Perhaps you can help this gal get a fix:

My husband and I recently got back from Hong Kong, and while we were there, we ate Typhoon Shelter Crab–it was served over a bed of fried garlic along with black beans and red chili. Do you know of any place in the metroplex where this dish is available?

(Dear Wick, I did not delete the “M” word above because it is a direct quote. Please do not fire me for allowing the “M” word to run in a “publication” of D Magazine.)

7 comments

  1. Sorry for the “m” word, I was not thinking. Please accept my apologies.

    @ 3:21 pm on December 28, 2009

  2. Maxim’s in Richardson serves a crab with fried garlic dish that is pretty good and might hold you until you can get back to Hong Kong.

    @ 10:55 pm on December 28, 2009

  3. Thank you. I will try to get there very soon.

    @ 9:07 am on December 29, 2009

  4. Since we don’t have Typhoons (and thus no Typhoon Shelters), I would think these would be hard to find in Texas.

    @ 4:58 pm on December 29, 2009

  5. umm.. sounds like a pretty specific dish to be looking for in Texas. I mean I would never think of dining in Hong Kong, then expecting to find something similar when I return. IJS.

    @ 5:36 pm on January 5, 2010

  6. ooops… that sounded snotty. but didn’t mean it that way. it is just a funny sounding request to me.

    @ 5:37 pm on January 5, 2010

  7. but, Dallas has a lot of ethnic/international restaurants and steamed crab and garlic are fairly easy ingredients to come by.

    @ 4:49 pm on January 6, 2010