I Still Manage to Eat Shrimp...

Unfortunately, because of the oil spill in the Gulf, people are losing their livelihoods and their is going to be a stop of the exporting of the best shrimp all around the country. However, just because of the loss of the Gulf Shrimp, it doesn't mean that I can't enjoy some shrimp (even though they're imported from God knows where). I've returned to the bay house where we have restaurants all around getting the freshest seafood from the LI Sound.

I took a stop at Braun's Seafood again for dinner. If you remember in my past post that mentioned Braun's, it was just a fish market, however, after being closed for a week for getting organized, the take out restaurant has been reopened for business where you can get a plethora of incredibly well prepared fish and shellfish. In addition, they also offer land food, meaning chicken fingers and really, really good burgers. Of course with the title of this post, one might be able to guess where I'm going with this, but it's not any ordinary shrimp I'm talking about.

I'm talking about Braun's signature coconut shrimp and they don't get anything already prepared, it's all done on their own. They have a last bit of Gulf Shrimp that they are using in their restaurant and selling in their shop and that is what they use to make it this time (I'm sure it will still be good with different shrimp, just not as good). After they make their own batter with coconut that they shave on their own and then they fry it for the perfect brown on the shrimp.

Including the shrimp all of the menu items are popular amongst the locals and some tourists who manage to find the place and my family has had to wait close to an hour for our fish. Being the patient people that they are, I always try my best to stand my ground and wait for the food to get out and that doesn't always work. Luckily for me, I got there at the perfect time and as we got to the counter, a massive line formed behind me. Consider me lucky to get some of my last tastes of gulf shrimp.