Debbie W.
Yelp
Every time I come to Seattle, I had to stop by Crab Pot for some yummy seafood and get my hands dirty. This time I decided to try a new place. After checking the review on Yelp, I stopped by Crawfish King in Chinatown for a similar experience.
The service of the restaurant is really nice. The host showed us where their free parking lot is, and gave us a thorough explanation on how the menu works and which one has the most value. He also gave us some discount on using Yelp, and they have a Facebook "like for fries", and brought us some free Cajun fries. Make sure you mention that to them if you like fries. When I mentioned that some of us couldn't eat anything spicy, he also gave us some side spicy sauce on the house so others could taste. At the end, we got some hot towels to clean our hands. I have no complain about their service!
We ordered the 5lb bucket, which came with 1lb of crawfish, shrimp with head, clam, mussels, snow crab and veggies. It also comes with three corns, and potatoes, which we didn't get to finish all. I was a little disappointed with how small the crawfish are. They are very tiny, and doesn't taste very fresh. Same thing with the snow crab, many of the legs are somewhat hollow, with very little meat. I regret to order the combo, because we are unable to switch out any of the included items. Next time, I'll definitely order each seafood separately, so I can try the Dungeness crab. We order the big easy sauce on the bucket, it was flavorful, but too salty for my liking. I was drinking a lot of water afterwards. We also ordered some sampler for appetizer. The zucchini is really good, jalapeño popper was enjoyable, as it's not super spicy. I really like to butterfly shrimp, and yam fries was a-okay.
At the end, if you spend over $100 you get to spin the wheel of coupons. Many customers enjoyed that experience, who doesn't like to spin the wheels?! But I was a bit disappointed that 20% gratuity was added on for the bill automatically. To be fair, he did mention it before we were sat down, it was transparent. But I guess it's a trend nowadays in the restaurant industry. If you are okay with it, you should come and give this place a try.