Fatty sling chilli kong grom

My colleague and FOCOT Christine shares this three-in-one review - dinner, dessert, and leftovers!  Four, if you count the drinks.  Yeah, let's make that four.

Mike and I went to Fatty Crab last night. We went to their original location a good few years ago but they just opened a new location on the Upper West Side which is much handier so Amanda babysat and we got our eat on - Malaysian Street Food. Overall, it was an excellent meal. We got five dishes. Three were excellent, one was very good, and the last was just ok.

Drinks: I started with the Staits Sling, a variation on the Singapore Sling - according to the menu it had gin, benedictine, kirschwasser, lime, and ginger beer. It was pretty good - nice flavors although I thought it needed to have a few more bubbles and to be a little spicier. Mike drank Blue Point. After the boozy cocktail I decided to take break and ordered a ginger beer. It arrived and I was suprised how bland it was and then looked at the bottle and realized it was Ginger Ale - this explains the lack of spiciness in the Straits Sling. I asked the waiter (who was great) about it and he went to check but that was their version of Ginger Beer - very disappointing. 

Food: The idea is to share things and everything comes when ready so no courses really. We knew this so decided to just order a few things first. We started with the Malay Fish Fry, (lightly fried spicy pieces of a white fish served with coconut rice - yum), the Fatty Tea Sandwiches, (pork belly with sambal aioli - very tasty - I could have eaten a whole plate of them) and the highlight - the Watermelon Pickle and Crispy Pork Salad. I don’t like watermelon so I left that and just ate the pickled rind with the pork - crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. I’m usually not a fan of soft fat, but this was amazing - just melted in the mouth.

We knew we wanted to finish with the Chilli Crab but needed one more dish - Mike wanted noodles so we settled on the Hokkien Mee - egg noodles with steak, cockles and shrimp. It wasn’t bad - all the components were good - but it just didn’t do much for me - I wasn’t sure what the chef was trying to achieve with the dish - it was the only one that I was disappointed in. We finished with the Chili Crab - so good - a whole Dungeness crab that comes in this amazing spicy, buttering, crab sauce. Once the crab is finished (it’s hard work) you can sop up the sauce with the toast that comes with it - soooo good. Oh, and I almost forgot, a friend recommended the Kang Kong - REALLY spicy sautéed spinach - it was phenomenal - garlicky and then the slow burn… definitely the spiciest thing on the menu.

Delicious dinner. We finished across the street at Grom. Pretty tasty gelato but I don’t get the hype - I’ve had  better - and, my pet peeve: the stracciatella flavor was just chocolate chip - it should be more like shavings - melt in your mouth rather than crunchy. The tiramisu flavor was nice though.

Epilogue: Breakfast this morning - fried egg on toast smeared with leftover crab sauce - divine. The yolky goodness melded with the sauce to create a sweet and spicy taste. So good - I must confess I did lick my plate. And the left over spicy spinach will accompany tonight’s dinner - marinated flank steak with mashed potatoes.

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