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Happy Crab Seafood Restaurant

Brisbane CBD

Updated: May 05, 2025

Happy Crab Restaurant is an Asian-flavoured seafood restaurant in Brisbane CBD specializing in crabs and crustaceans, where customers get to bib up before dining.

Interior of Happy Crab

Dishes on offer include starters like oysters, fish, prawn or chicken tacos, sashimi scallops with yuzu ponzu sauce or Japanese salad. 

Slection of entress at Happy Crab Seafood

Other small dishes include karaage chicken, vegetarian spring rolls, lemon pepper calamari or fried chicken set (with Korean spicy sauce, honey mustard or original sauce).

Mixed seafood bag on table at Happy Crab

When it comes to mains, the Happy Seagaterian Bags are what this restaurant is about - large bags of cooked seafood emptied on to the table with a choice of sauce. Diners can choose from 500g of Snow Crab, Bugs or King Crab; or whole lobster, all of which come served with 6 whole prawns & 4 peeled prawns; 6 baby octopi; 8 mussels. 6 chorizo, 6 corn cob & 4 potatoes.

Seafood mix at Happy Crab Seafood

Diners can also order mains that come in 500g serves without the trimmings - lobsters, snow or king crab; whole or peeled prawns; Moreton Bay bugs; or half shell mussels as well as Scottish scampi.

Seafood dishes at Happy Crab Restaurant Brisbane

In addition there's an all-day menu of more traditional dishes, including sushi rolls, don (sashimi, salmon or aburi salmon); Japanese curry chicken; prawn creamy rice; hot udon or chicken katsu.

Soft drinks at Happy Crab Restaurant Brisbane

Drinks-wise, there's a selection of craft beer and cider and Asahi Dry on tap and bottled; a small list of Australian wines as well as Japanese soft drinks.

Good to know - A small kids menu is available including fish and chips, karaage chicken and chips or tempura prawn and chips.

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Restaurant images courtesy of Quandoo

Food images courtesy of Happ Crab Seafood website.

Happy Crab Restaurant

127 Creek St

Brisbane CBD

Opening hours

Licensed

3420 1674

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