research

as crab landing is still in the construction phase, we start meeting all these vendors for tasting of their products from wines to liquor to produce.

we got to taste so many wines, i've definitely trained my palette even though there's still alot of work to be done. we did alot of research by going to alot of restaurants, checking out how they ran their operation, their menus, wine list, wells for the bars as well as checking out their decor to almost everything you could think of.

we got to check out Southern Wine & Spirits warehouse which was located in union city and they distribute to pretty much the whole bay area. one of the biggest wine & spirits vendors in the US.

hog island at the ferry building is one of my favorite places to go grab oysters. love their concept and how they push their oysters. wanted to do something similar to our oyster bar as well so i took the whole team there to check it out, even brought my contractor so he had an idea of how an oyster bar should look.









jaime pineda from southern wine & spirits.. gave me a sample of the siku vodka..
vodka made out of 60,000 year old crytal clear ice from the Qalerallit Sermia glacier
in greenland.. have yet to open the bottle..


tasting with pacific wine & spirits at the oceano bar

having some fun

construction was our lives for most of the day but once the sun set, noone had lights to work so we would head back for some food & wine tastings since we didnt have a kitchen at the crab yet.

check phahn in the back!





honestly the best rockefellers recipe - thanks to chef manoon.






having some fun on the top of the roof. this is mr andy lu, our wine
director and mr chinatown 2009.

More construction

more and more construction. Glass railings on the upper level dining was getting installed, bars being built, staircase wielding, murals on the walls were getting complete, painted the floors on the patio, elevators getting installed. still so much more to be done. crazy but fun times.

problems that didnt need to happen but happened anyways:

patio was painted one color and an idiot decides to buy a different kind to paint the rest of the patio so we had to diff shades on the patio floors.

sealing the patio after paint was an even worse disaster. not done right and everything started chipping off.

ALL FIXED THOUGH!

elevator getting installed


upstairs bar being built


scaffold to complete the walls for the kitchen and where the rest of the
mural would be


the platform 45 ft in the air. not cool to climb up n down.


nice lil host stand


patio floors. as u can see theres 2 diff shades of paint color