SG Restaurant Takes Crabs For A 'Walk' As Marketing Stunt. It Backfires Severely
"We love our crabs, the same way as everyone love their pets!" wrote the restaurant.
By Daranee Balachandar — 21 Jun 2021, 04:51 PM
Singaporean restaurant House of Seafood received backlash online after posting several photos of them walking crabs as if they were pet dogs
In a Facebook post last Friday, 18 June, titled 'Walk The Crab' the restaurant shared several photos of a family — including children — walking dogs and crabs using leashes.
"We love our crabs, the same way as everyone love their pets!" wrote House of Seafood in the caption.
"To make sure our crabs are really meaty that can satisfy every of our food patrons, we would bring them out strolling along the breezy Punggol beach, just to get enough exercises... Cheers!"
According to the restaurant's website, House of Seafood is an award-winning restaurant that has an outlet in Punggol Point, Singapore; Khan Daun Penh, Cambodia; and previously one in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
The location where they brought the crabs for a walk is just a stone's throw away from their outlet in Singapore.
At the time of writing, the post has over 800 shares. Netizens were neither amused by the photos nor the caption of the post.
Hundreds expressed their disgust in the comment section.
Some were horrified that the crabs that were served as dishes in the restaurant were being treated as pets.
Others thought that it was cruel to toy with the crabs and take them on walks with leashes on.
In March, another outlet of the restaurant at Clarke Quay in Singapore was under fire for serving its famed crab dishes in chamber pots
Netizens did not react well to the photos posted by a social media influencer that captured her eating the crab dish out of a chamber pot on 4 March.
In 2019, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) called out the Punggol outlet of the restaurant for allowing customers to catch their own live crabs using a claw machine.
