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Boiled Crawfish from Northpark

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by: Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 6:57pm  
My wife stopped by and picked up some boiled crawfish from the little place on Northpark near the pottery place and the taco place (just outside the Harris County line).  My wife had called earlier and was told they were $4/lb.  The girl answering the phone messed up, their price for LIVE crawfish is $4/lb and boiled crawfish is $7/lb.  The guy said he is honoring the $4/lb price today but it's back to $7/lb tomorrow.I was disappointed in that he apparently boils in just salted water.  Then he sprinkles seasoning on the outside of the crawfish when he takes them out of the water.  They were WAY too salty and they needed to cook a little longer.  The meat wasn't releasing from the inside of the tail like it would if it cooked for a little longer.  The guy that does the boiling is very nice, but he had lots of customers waiting in line.  Maybe he just rushed a bit?We enjoyed eating the crawfish, but won't go back to him.  I like the seasoning in the water so it soaks into the meat.  Also, I won't pay $7/lb for boiled crawfish.Has anyone found a place that seasons the water instead of the outside of the crawfish? 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 7:07pm  
You try the one on 1960 heading towards 59? 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 7:07pm  
Oh, and just a reminder.  When you eat something like this, you can wash your hands real good but there will still be a bit of the salt and pepper residue (my lips are still burning).  So don't go touching your eyes, don't pick your nose, or touch sensitive tissue DOWN THERE!  4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 7:09pm  
You try the one on 1960 heading towards 59?
 
@ET:  Not yet.  My wife was out and would be going down Northpark so we though we'd give them a try today.  It wet my appetite for more crawfish!
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 7:10pm  
Don't know how they cook them but they do a good business. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 7:16pm  
I am sooo full. Please don't get me craving crawfish and potatoes right now...lol. Thanks for the review! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 7:51pm  
You know, you can just catch them in a ditch...
 
You people disgust me. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 7:56pm  
You know, you can just catch them in a ditch...
 
You people disgust me.
 
@BooBear:
 
I will assume you are not a raw oyster eater either? 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:02pm  

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>> You know, you can just catch them in a ditch...
 
You people disgust me.
 
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I will assume you are not a raw oyster eater either?
 
@ET:
 
You would be correct. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:11pm  
No mud bugs for me sorry. I know you have to boil the crap out of them. (literally) Just to eat them. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:13pm  
I think we need to have "Round Two" of a crawfish boil @dmartin529 's place. It was the bomb! She used the Zatarain's crawfish boil seasoning. She also had some taters, big weiners, small weiners, mushrooms, onions and corn. Yummers!!!P.S. HEB has them for $1.99 a pound. I'll front the cost!!!!!  4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:20pm  
No mud bugs for me sorry. I know you have to boil the crap out of them. (literally) Just to eat them.
 
@friday1:  Not quite true.  We always purged our crawfish before boiling them.  We put the live crawfish in a big tub filled with clean cool water.  We added a lot of salt and the crawfish would regurgitate swamp water and anything they had recently eaten.  Then we put them in the spiced boiling water, brought the water back to a boil for a few minutes, then just shut the heat off and let them soak for a while.  We would spray water on the outside of the pot to cool down the water/crawfish (overcooking makes the meat mushy).  Then dump them out on a table covered in newspaper, grab a beer, and have at it.  Removing the "vein" or "poop chute" from the tail of the crawfish meat was optional.  Eat the meat, then suck the head!
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:26pm  
bluuuuuch..........(I don't know how to plug in the puking smiley face...!!!)do you people hear yourselves???????  ...."swamp water........regurgitate........poop chute.......suck heads"........geez!!!! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:36pm  

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>> No mud bugs for me sorry. I know you have to boil the crap out of them. (literally) Just to eat them.
 
@friday1:  Not quite true.  We always purged our crawfish before boiling them.  We put the live crawfish in a big tub filled with clean cool water.  We added a lot of salt and the crawfish would regurgitate swamp water and anything they had recently eaten.  Then we put them in the spiced boiling water, brought the water back to a boil for a few minutes, then just shut the heat off and let them soak for a while.  We would spray water on the outside of the pot to cool down the water/crawfish (overcooking makes the meat mushy).  Then dump them out on a table covered in newspaper, grab a beer, and have at it.  Removing the "vein" or "poop chute" from the tail of the crawfish meat was optional.  Eat the meat, then suck the head!
 
@Retired_Engineer:
 
I grew up thinking the purge was a functional necessity too. Over the past several years, that practice has turned out to be more of a tradition that unnecessarily traumatized the crawfish. I do a few boils every year and have stopped purging in saltwater. I've become convinced that the myth busters are right.
www.lsuagcenter.com/ news_archive/2014/fe bruary/headline_news /Myths-persist-
 
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:37pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 3, '15 8:40pm  
Crawfish connection is really good. It's on 1960, just a few miles from 59. Their dipping sauce is the best! 4951
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