A Wonderful Evening At The Dancing Crab, Vivocity

After having been to Turf City's The Dancing Crab twice and falling in love with the concept and the freshness of the crabs, the boyfriend decided he wanted to have his 30th, 21st birthday at The Dancing Crab at Turf City. But, the place was always crowded. Every time we went we had to reserve seats ahead, and there was always a queue for the walk-ins. Even though Turf City isn't exactly the most accessible place for the non-drivers.

On searching their website one day, we discovered there was a new outlet at Vivocity. In fact, there's also another one at Orchard Central, but the Vivocity one looked more scenic considering it faces a body of water. Haha, not the sea. That teeny bit of water between Vivocity and Sentosa is too small to be considered the sea!

And so the boyfriend magnanimously decided to have it at the Vivocity one. Leading to cheers, and slightly better attendance. As a typical kiasu girlfriend, I asked his best friend to help book the place way in advance, fearing that it might be as crowded as Turf City's. They were really nice, and told his best friend that they would give us the sea-facing, I mean, water-facing part.

And they did! While the rest of the diners were upstairs, we had the whole space downstairs to ourselves. It was also just nice that there was a bar right next to us, so there are always waitresses lingering there. Yeap, we had a private party. Haha. It might also be because the Vivocity one is not yet as popular as the Turf City one, so not as many people. But yay for us :)

At first we were worried and tried to pair everyone up for the Combo Bag. But some of our friends decided to have the entrees, eg. lobster rolls, fish and chips (but the name on the menu was long and almost deceiving) so they ate individual meals. It was nice that there were stuff for non-crab lovers, although one of our friends exclaimed to them, "But this is The Dancing Crab, not The Dancing Fish eh".

The food arrived in about 10 minutes after our orders. That was super fast, considering I once waited 45 minutes for the one at Turf City. Everyone dug in and were complimenting the freshness of the seafood. The prawns were crazy fresh and even the breaded fish was so easily broken, unlike the kinds where you know it's been frozen. Even the best friend was digging up treasure from the sauces when everything visible was gobbled up.

A pair of our friends wanted some fries to have some more carbohydrates, and we all started stealing from their bowl of piping hot potato fries. Once you pop, you couldn't stop.

Our private party!

Before we dug in.

A shoutout also to Temptations Cake! They made this Stormtrooper cake possible for me. Even though there was a miscommunication in the morning, they dealt with it very professionally and even hand-delivered it over!

The damage for those who had the Combo Bag were about $50. Those who ate the entrees paid $22- $29. One of our friends had a UOB card and so we had a 15% discount. NO GST! So yea, bring your friends who has UOB cards over la.

I know I've never done any restaurant reviews ever in this humble blog of mine, but I have nothing but compliments for the two places that made the boyfriend's birthday memorable! Okay, maybe one complaint, why our crab smaller than the others? Hahaha... I think we had more prawns though, so it's okay lar.