The Boiling Crab is an American restaurant chain serving food from Cajun cuisine. Founded in 2004, the chain has 30 restaurants, mainly centering them in the Southwestern United States, although it has some international locations and others outside of the area.
History
The Boiling Crab was founded by Sinh Nguyen and Dada Ngo, a Vietnamese husband-and-wife couple. Nguyen's family mainly worked as crabbers or fishermen in the small Texan town of Seadrift. They opened the chain's first restaurant in 2004 in Garden Grove's Little Saigon. Its popularity has caused many other, similar Cajun restaurants to appear in Southern California.[1] It opened its first intercontinental location in the Kakaʻako district of Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2016.[2] The first international restaurant was opened in May 2020 in Shanghai. Locations in Australia started operation in early 2021.[3] 2021 was also when a Boiling Crab in Washington, D.C., opened, in July of that year.[4]