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Fatty Crab

643 Hudson St.

New York , NY , United States http://www.fattycrab.com/

(212) 352-3590

Zak Pelaccio’s Fatty Crab has been serving ultra-spicy Malaysian-inspired specialties out of a brick-walled West Village space since 2005. The food is an intense blend of salty, funky, spicy, fishy, and tart flavors, like his watermelon and pork belly salad, the sweet and fragrant Jalan Alor chicken wings or the nasi lemak, a Malaysian curry served with a poached egg and the fiery fish-paste known as otak. Pelaccio and his partners have also opened Fatty Crab Uptown, a much bigger Upper West Side offshoot that takes reservations, and two branches of Fatty ‘Cue (one in Brooklyn, one in the West Village), which mix Southeast Asian flavors with slow-cooked BBQ and smoked meats.

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From Food & Wine , JUL 2007

I was the only Westerner who had ever cooked there, and the experience was life-changing: It completely opened my mind to new...MORE
– An American Chef’s Malaysian Love Story

Last updated Fri Jan 11 16:29:27 UTC 2013