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Help a local Redditor find the best crab rangoon in Greater Boston
A Reddit user has big plans: To go on a "Crab Rangoon Crawl" in Cambridge and Somerville. But they need help from the community in finding the best crab rangoon to try.
A Camberville resident is on a mission to find the best crab rangoon money can buy.
You’re probably thinking: That shouldn’t be too hard — crab rangoon is a solid bite anywhere you go.
While you’ve likely never met a crab rangoon you didn’t like, there is a difference between a good goon and a first-rate crab rangoon.
@slothgirl__ CRAB RANGOOOOOONS #fyp #mukbang #crabrangoons #eatingshow #mukbangeatingshow ♬ original sound – Gabby Eniclerico
Like most foods, it’s all about ratio and texture. Ever had a crab rangoon that’s too fried? Too soft? More wrapper in a bite than cream cheese? Maybe the restaurant got too heavy-handed in the other additions added in with the cheese, like too many chopped onions? Was the dipping sauce too sweet, watery, or did you not get any at all?
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While none of this is exactly nightmare fuel (again, crab rangoon is fine even when it’s not, if that makes sense), it’s just better to know where the best are made.
Crab rangoon — served at Asian restaurants and named after a city in Myanmar, but it was likely invented by Victor Bergeron, who founded the tiki bar chain Trader Vic’s in California, according to Atlas Obscura — can come out classic with actual crabmeat or imitation crab and cream cheese, like at Tiki Rock in downtown Boston. Restaurants also put their own spin on the fried, and very online, appetizer, like with the addition of cranberries in the crab rangoon at The Mad Monkfish.
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Enter Redditor SCO0TS, who is putting in the hard work to find and develop a list of the best goons around — at least in Cambridge and Somerville. Not only that, they claim to be doing it in one day and calling it a “Crab Rangoon Crawl.”
“Some may call me crazy. ‘You can’t eat all that cream cheese in one day, you’re lactose intolerant’ or ‘half of these aren’t even made with crab,’” the post read. “They are right, but it’s my responsibility to try.”
Crab Rangoons of Camberville
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Given that this was posted nine days ago, we have no idea if SCO0TS went on this crab rangoon crawl. But we figured readers could help out SCO0TS and other fellow goon epicureans who may find a list of recommendations useful (I, the writer, am one such person who would put this list to good use).
So readers, now’s your time to share, if you’re willing to reveal: Where do you get the best crab rangoon? For the purpose of making this list friendly to non-Camberville residents, we’ll take recommendations in other Greater Boston towns as well, though you’d be doing our local Redditor a solid if it’s a Cambridge or Somerville restaurant.
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