The recent arrival of Sunnyvale's Crab Station adds yet another heavyweight to the valley's roster. The contingent of true Chinese restaurants is now complete with this live-seafood extravaganza. True to form, the restaurant is all business, very serious, almost clinical. Everything about it is harsh, the lighting brutally bright. Tables are set rather close together.
Music is barely audible.
The sunflower-yellow walls are almost naked, as if they had been freshly painted, with perhaps one or two framed artworks in the entire place. Of course, the singularly important decoration is located right inside the door. Alaskan king crabs entangling themselves, fat rock cod sulking by the dozen, bamboo clams wiggling in tight ranks like saplings, oysters peeping out from shells. The delicious possibilities are almost countless. It's a good thing the prices are reasonable.