Laughing Crab Catering — Restaurant in Havre de Grace

Normally, I read reviews before trying new places but I didn't this time... I wish I had. We have food trucks come to our town every 1st Friday of the month. We don't go very often because it's not really a money saver so we do it for fun every once in a while. There were about 10-15 food trucks and this Laughing Crab food truck looked pretty flashy and I figured if they can spend the extra money to make the truck so fancy, they must be making good money=good business. Anyway, we ordered 2 crab cake sandwiches, 1 crab won ton, 1 fish and chips, 1 side of fries, 2 waters, 1 Gatorade, and 2 cans of Coke. Then there's tax and THEN 8% surcharge for using your credit card. As mentioned previously, food trucks are not money savers these days. Fine. If the food was worth it, I would be good. Crab cake sandwich: served on a cold sesame bun. That's it. I think it's just visually lacking. I like some color in my food. At least toast the bun. For $14, it just seemed disappointing. It was seasoned and not bad on the fillers but I've had crab cakes with more meat for same amount of money. The amount of bun almost takes over the crab cake. The crab wonton was mostly dough. They used a small scooper to put the crab mixture in, about the size of a hush puppy and the dough is 6 inches in diameter. Any seasoning was in the crab mixture. The rest of the dough was just dough...very oily dough. There was a small pocket of oil in the corner that popped open while my son bit into it...rather unpleasant. And is Chinese duck sauce a normal condiment that goes with the crab wonton? But at least it gave some extra taste to the dough. I was told that the fish and chips were good. The side of fries was still in the shape of the fryer basket...and super oily. The issue is if there is too much food crammed in the fryer basket, the food in the middle doesn't get fried properly. So our fries on the outside was crispy but in the middle was still soft. Overall, we were not impressed and won't be returning to that food truck. I'd rather go to our local seafood restaurant and get more seafood for our hard earned money. Oh, here's a tip about food service: Don't bicker in front of your customers; it's unprofessional and sends a...

So we're at an arts and crafts festival down here in Florida, and I see a food truck selling crab cakes and Maryland crab soup. I don't see that too often, and I love that soup, so I stop by and get some stuff.

The truck itself looks visually appealing and the employee is nice enough. I order the number one, the Crab Cake Sandwich "Our Crab Cakes are the Best and we have the Awards to Prove It!" I also get the Maryland Crab Soup, "Made from Scratch with out Traditional Eastern Shore Recipe."

The sandwich. It was ok. The amount of crab in the crab cake was a little disappointing considering the company is from Maryland. I've gotten more crab in a crab cake from St. Pete, FL for about the same amount of money. Odd. The sandwich was topping-less, but I would have been ok with that, let the crab cake shine, if it wasn't for the ok crab cake. It wasn't all breadcrumbs or anything, just not enough of what you wanted for the price.

The soup. It certainly tasted like the traditional recipe. I've had this soup made for me in my childhood by a real New Englander. So the flavor was there, spot on. But the crab, again, was lacking. I can understand lacking crab, but not from a spot that has them plastered everywhere in their marketing.

Overall, if you see this truck, stop by and consider them. If your options are truly limited at the festival or fair you're at, and this is the only thing catching your eye, I'd say go for it. If you have a plethora of options,...

Poor food safety standards! Ordered crab cake sandwich, fries and a peach tea. The guy (brown hair buzzed hair) repeated my order. My husband ordered the same thing. They took forever to make the food, the blonde guy making it was fussing about something. We moved behind the truck as a car drove by and I should have canceled my order then!! Truck was disgusting! Very dirty inside and the blonde guy was grabbing food out of bags and the freezer with bare hands. He gave us our sandwiches and said thanks and we asked about our fries, they didn't ring us up for them ($41 for two buns with a crab cake on them and nothing else and two peach teas?!?). I questioned the pricing and he said he'd give them to us for free.. the peach teas tasted like they pumped snow cone juice into tea, so sweet I couldn't drink it. Then when he gave us the fries he PUT HIS BARE HAND INTO A BIG CONTAINER OF OLD BAY AND SPRINKLED IT ON THE FRIES!!! Never...