I’ve finally eaten Chalawan food, although based on
@Parsnipity seems to have suffered a recent disappointment here.
But they had soft-shell crab on the menu, and I was in the mood. It was a let down, because it had been hacked into many pieces, resulting in lots of crunch, but only fleeting hints of crab. I had two pieces of the chicken in betel leaf appetizer, with very robust betel leaves and relatively mild chicken. The most recent other version I’ve had was at Uncle Boon’s Sister in NYC and it was much better. The best dish was the scallop appetizer, with green chiles, lime, slivers of ginger, etc. The scallops were very tender although they did tiptoe a little close to mush.
