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First time ordering seafood from Boil Daddy, located inside Daisy Diner Long Beach (a ghost kitchen located near our place in Long Beach, CA), we ordered a lot for 4 people, and it was good. I've ordered food from this ghost kitchen multiple times, the brands change frequently (I swear that there are 3 birria places alone inside, all serving the exact same food at same prices), but the same set of cuisines is consistent. It's a nice set-up, optimized for delivery drivers to quickly pick up their food...and end consumers can take advantage of the same set-up. We had a soon to expire meal voucher for $96 from Delta because of our canceled flight for the previous day, so decided to try a place that allowed use of a virtual debit/cash card (there was no physical card so the easiest way was to use an ecommerce site to manually enter the number). Boil Daddy opens at 10am daily, specializing in Cajun/Vietnamese seafood boils. Placed a pickup order via Doordash at 11, and I got an email around 11:12 letting me know the order was ready. Because the package was too big to put inside a self-serve footlocker, the self-checkin kiosk told me to wait in line to pick up my order from the small pick-up area. We brought the food home, and was pleased that everything was exactly right (correct items and sauces). Boil Daddy does offer both snow crab and king crab, but it's expensive as expected...found ordering shrimp as the main course is a lot more cost efficient and almost as good...even when I wanted to splurge. I also found that the Fisherman's Lunch is a self contained seafood boil for one, and a better deal than ordering a family meal. -- order of fries ($6) was the McDonald shoestring kind and was fine, probably equal to a extra large. - 4x Fisherman's lunch ($18 each). choice of head-on shrimp (half lb), mussels, clams, plus one corn, 3 quarter wedges of red skin-on potato, and 3 sausage slices. You can also choose type of sauce (cajun, butter, or mix) and hotness (original which is no spice, mild, hot, extra hot. Got 3 mild with shrimp, and 1 hot with mussels. I added an add-on of 5 sausage slices ($4.75). - Fried Oyster Basket ($19). 8 fried oysters, fries, and side of sauce (same as above). The oysters were small, well fried, but still had that brininess which I enjoyed and it was good being dipped. - container of sauce ($6.75). Spicy. My intention is to use to make my own boil much later. Assuming it freezes well. The food was surprisingly solid, as good as the many other seafood boil places all around Long Beach. The shrimp had been thawed from frozen but wasn't mealy at all (though very messy since it was hands on and was not shelled in anyway). And don't expect the shrimp to have been deveined...it's head-on for Pete's sake. The potato was cooked through, the corn on the cob was half (instead of the cobette that I'm used to), and the sausage slices were large and tasty. The sauce was very thick and did a nice job of coating everything, and the original was fine if you don't want any hotness. They did a really good job of packaging and labeling each one, if one chose to buy individual lunches. This was one case where buying individual units instead of one large family choice was a better deal. There was enough food for my wife to have leftovers for dinner. Even though you can order directly from Daisy Diner via their website or their onsite kiosk, I've found it better to order from a 3rd party delivery service like Doordash, even for pickup. The prices are the same (which is surprising considering there must be a fee paid by the vendor for using Doordash), and there are usually some sort of special or deal (in our case, it was $23 off of any order $50+).
Loved the food! Was super tasty seasoned well and didn't wait long. Was exactly what we wanted and was looking for . Loved I could order and enjoy in my house!
Beware of Name Change!! New Name - Same Crap!! Grub Hub listed the restaurant as The Boil Daddy but they are now renamed The Shaking Crab - Long Beach!! I didn't realize it was the same restaurant until after I received my order and saw the address was the same. 01.26 - Boil Daddy Order - Fish was undercooked (raw in the middle) and the peel shrimp I paid extra for was delivered with the head and feet 05.11 - The Shaking Crab Order - Food was 20mins late, cold, soggy and the peel shrimp I order was delivered with the head and feed AGAIN!! Plus the mild sauce I selected was Hot AF - like burn your booty hole kinda hot! Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I could chalk up the first time to errors - staff might have had a rough night or maybe they were slammed. but wow, second time with the new name!? Uhhh, shady much? Save your money. Don't order from here. Dishonest name changes. Food is less than decent & not prepared correctly.
Placed an order through door dash and the delivery came after 45 minutes. it was 90 bucks for 2 lbs shrimp, lobster, and some crab legs. Flavor wise this place is good but the price is not great. and the shrimps that we got were pretty small in comparison to what I usually get at kicking crab.
I wish 0 star was available. I used to order often when I had a craving for seafoods but not anymore. For the first time, a shrimp was not cleaned properly. I tasted a soil(sand) and I looked at shrimp and it obviously showed a soil in there. I eat seafood for taste and healthy stuff but if this not cleaned properly, what's the point I eat this as a healthy treat. A manager and an owner must know how their staff work and this is a manager's fault. He or she should be aware of all food safety and quality.
I ordered mussels and head-on shrimp. I placed my order through Uber eats. I really prefer to pick up my food but they had a promo going on and I wanted to see how it would go. First off, I didn't receive my head-on shrimp, I got peeled instead (thanks for looking out..?) but I really had my mind set on my head-on shrimp. Then my mussels looked and tasted horrible. I mean if you look at pictures below you will see what I'm talking about. If you eat mussels then you know they shouldn't even look like that. I wasn't able to get refunded unfortunately, because UE said it wasn't their fault the food was sh*tty. So I could've kept my promo AND money to buy something else. I'll just stick to my go-to spot when it comes to seafood bc this was horrible. Honestly though I should've known it was gone be something off since they had a BOGO on seafood in the UE app. I will not be ordering from them again, delivery or pickup. Also deleted my UE account bc I really spent $ on food I had to dispose due to the restaurant not triple quality checking, knowing that the driver can't check the food. Also, just got off the phone w/ the owner (ISSAC) and he's telling me nothing is wrong w/ the mussels and they do QC all food before it goes out for delivery. I told him that's not possible if y'all sent me mussels looking like this and didn't provide me with head-on shrimp like I ordered. UPDATE** After getting off the phone with the owner, he sent me a text. Long story short, I got refunded.
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First time ordering seafood from Boil Daddy, located inside Daisy Diner Long Beach (a ghost kitchen located near our place in Long Beach, CA), we ordered a lot for 4 people, and it was good. I've ordered food from this ghost kitchen multiple times, the brands change frequently (I swear that there are 3 birria places alone inside, all serving the exact same food at same prices), but the same set of cuisines is consistent. It's a nice set-up, optimized for delivery drivers to quickly pick up their food...and end consumers can take advantage of the same set-up. We had a soon to expire meal voucher for $96 from Delta because of our canceled flight for the previous day, so decided to try a place that allowed use of a virtual debit/cash card (there was no physical card so the easiest way was to use an ecommerce site to manually enter the number). Boil Daddy opens at 10am daily, specializing in Cajun/Vietnamese seafood boils. Placed a pickup order via Doordash at 11, and I got an email around 11:12 letting me know the order was ready. Because the package was too big to put inside a self-serve footlocker, the self-checkin kiosk told me to wait in line to pick up my order from the small pick-up area. We brought the food home, and was pleased that everything was exactly right (correct items and sauces). Boil Daddy does offer both snow crab and king crab, but it's expensive as expected...found ordering shrimp as the main course is a lot more cost efficient and almost as good...even when I wanted to splurge. I also found that the Fisherman's Lunch is a self contained seafood boil for one, and a better deal than ordering a family meal. -- order of fries ($6) was the McDonald shoestring kind and was fine, probably equal to a extra large. - 4x Fisherman's lunch ($18 each). choice of head-on shrimp (half lb), mussels, clams, plus one corn, 3 quarter wedges of red skin-on potato, and 3 sausage slices. You can also choose type of sauce (cajun, butter, or mix) and hotness (original which is no spice, mild, hot, extra hot. Got 3 mild with shrimp, and 1 hot with mussels. I added an add-on of 5 sausage slices ($4.75). - Fried Oyster Basket ($19). 8 fried oysters, fries, and side of sauce (same as above). The oysters were small, well fried, but still had that brininess which I enjoyed and it was good being dipped. - container of sauce ($6.75). Spicy. My intention is to use to make my own boil much later. Assuming it freezes well. The food was surprisingly solid, as good as the many other seafood boil places all around Long Beach. The shrimp had been thawed from frozen but wasn't mealy at all (though very messy since it was hands on and was not shelled in anyway). And don't expect the shrimp to have been deveined...it's head-on for Pete's sake. The potato was cooked through, the corn on the cob was half (instead of the cobette that I'm used to), and the sausage slices were large and tasty. The sauce was very thick and did a nice job of coating everything, and the original was fine if you don't want any hotness. They did a really good job of packaging and labeling each one, if one chose to buy individual lunches. This was one case where buying individual units instead of one large family choice was a better deal. There was enough food for my wife to have leftovers for dinner. Even though you can order directly from Daisy Diner via their website or their onsite kiosk, I've found it better to order from a 3rd party delivery service like Doordash, even for pickup. The prices are the same (which is surprising considering there must be a fee paid by the vendor for using Doordash), and there are usually some sort of special or deal (in our case, it was $23 off of any order $50+). read more
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Loved the food! Was super tasty seasoned well and didn't wait long. Was exactly what we wanted and was looking for . Loved I could order and enjoy in my house! read more
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Beware of Name Change!! New Name - Same Crap!! Grub Hub listed the restaurant as The Boil Daddy but they are now renamed The Shaking Crab - Long Beach!! I didn't realize it was the same restaurant until after I received my order and saw the address was the same. 01.26 - Boil Daddy Order - Fish was undercooked (raw in the middle) and the peel shrimp I paid extra for was delivered with the head and feet 05.11 - The Shaking Crab Order - Food was 20mins late, cold, soggy and the peel shrimp I order was delivered with the head and feed AGAIN!! Plus the mild sauce I selected was Hot AF - like burn your booty hole kinda hot! Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I could chalk up the first time to errors - staff might have had a rough night or maybe they were slammed. but wow, second time with the new name!? Uhhh, shady much? Save your money. Don't order from here. Dishonest name changes. Food is less than decent & not prepared correctly. read more
4 years ago
Placed an order through door dash and the delivery came after 45 minutes. it was 90 bucks for 2 lbs shrimp, lobster, and some crab legs. Flavor wise this place is good but the price is not great. and the shrimps that we got were pretty small in comparison to what I usually get at kicking crab. read more
3 years ago
I wish 0 star was available. I used to order often when I had a craving for seafoods but not anymore. For the first time, a shrimp was not cleaned properly. I tasted a soil(sand) and I looked at shrimp and it obviously showed a soil in there. I eat seafood for taste and healthy stuff but if this not cleaned properly, what's the point I eat this as a healthy treat. A manager and an owner must know how their staff work and this is a manager's fault. He or she should be aware of all food safety and quality. read more
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I ordered mussels and head-on shrimp. I placed my order through Uber eats. I really prefer to pick up my food but they had a promo going on and I wanted to see how it would go. First off, I didn't receive my head-on shrimp, I got peeled instead (thanks for looking out..?) but I really had my mind set on my head-on shrimp. Then my mussels looked and tasted horrible. I mean if you look at pictures below you will see what I'm talking about. If you eat mussels then you know they shouldn't even look like that. I wasn't able to get refunded unfortunately, because UE said it wasn't their fault the food was sh*tty. So I could've kept my promo AND money to buy something else. I'll just stick to my go-to spot when it comes to seafood bc this was horrible. Honestly though I should've known it was gone be something off since they had a BOGO on seafood in the UE app. I will not be ordering from them again, delivery or pickup. Also deleted my UE account bc I really spent $ on food I had to dispose due to the restaurant not triple quality checking, knowing that the driver can't check the food. Also, just got off the phone w/ the owner (ISSAC) and he's telling me nothing is wrong w/ the mussels and they do QC all food before it goes out for delivery. I told him that's not possible if y'all sent me mussels looking like this and didn't provide me with head-on shrimp like I ordered. UPDATE** After getting off the phone with the owner, he sent me a text. Long story short, I got refunded. read more
3 years ago
flavor was very good I ordered spicy and it was definitely spicy don't think I could handle anything spicier. What I will say is it was dry. If I order again I will order extra sauce because there wasn't enough to eat my rice so I pretty much just had dry white rice... 2 small pieces of potatoes and 1 small slice of sausage and 8 pieces of shrimp in the bowl. So 19$ I felt was a little over priced. For 20$ you could get a pound of shrimp that may have been more worth it. But overall flavor was good meal was good and I ordered through the site delivery was fast and efficient. No major complaints here. read more
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I ordered the shrimp bowl and it was delicious! I ordered mine mild and it was just the right amount of spice. Pickup was also quick and easy. Will definitely come back the next time I want some tasty seafood! read more
3 years ago
Just had the shrimp bowl. It was absolutely delicious. Will order again soon for sure. I hight recommend. read more
4 years ago
WORSE THAN 0. THIS MADE ME SO SICK $99 SNOW CRAB ORDER. This looked so disgusting NEVER AGAIN. Not to mention it was supposed to be TWO orders the entire second order was mysteriously forgotten read more
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