The Boiling Crab is a good place to go if you want to wear a plastic bib with a picture of a large crab on it while you eat with your hands and smell like garlic when you leave--we love it!  The first time I ate at BC was in LA with my little brother, where we got in line with about 20 other people half an hour before they opened on a Friday afternoon--popular!  That hasn't been the case so far at this Decatur location, but we usually arrive around 5:30 to beat the crowds who do show up by the time we're leaving.  \n\nEating here is fairly straightforward:\n-pick your seafood and order by the pound:  shrimp, crawfish, oysters, clams, lobster, blue crab, king crab legs, snow crab legs, and Dungeness crab are your choices.  Your server will inform you up front if they are out of anything that day.\n-pick your sauce:  Rajun Cajun, lemon pepper, garlic sauce, or the Whole Sha-Bang, which is a combo of all three sauces.\n-pick your spice level:  non-spicy, mild, medium, and XXX.  \nFried options include catfish, shrimp, chicken tenders, calamari, oysters, and hot wings.\nSides are gumbo, Cajun chowder, corn on the cob, potatoes, sausages, Cajun fries, lemon pepper fries, sweet potato fries, steamed rice.\n(Yes, I just summarized the menu.)\n\nI usually get a pound of shrimp with mild Whole Sha-bang sauce, steamed rice, and a corn on the cob.  This past visit, we also had sweet potato fries first.  My method of eating shrimp is to peel a bunch first, then eat with rice, peel another bunch, eat, repeat, until all the shrimp is gone, my hands are red from the Sha-bang sauce, and the table is a disaster area.  What's so great about this place is that there are always so many other Asians there, mainly Filipinos from what I saw the last time; it feels like I'm at a family party.  Any opportunity that we get to eat rice and seafood with our hands is a good one, apparently.  There are TVs everywhere, so you can watch a good game or ESPN while you nosh.  This is a great place to go with friends and dig into your food.  Just don't wear white.