From the restaurant's website:
"Fatty Crab is a restaurant that serves Malaysian-inspired cuisine. Malaysia is a peninsular country that dangles just below Thailand in Southeast Asia and borders Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and The Philippines. The Malaysians use a wide variety of spices, fermented condiments, chilies, and a ton of coconut milk in their cuisine. Over the years there have been distinct Chinese, Portuguese, Indian and Indonesian influences integrated into the cuisine, especially in the urban centers and port cities. Abundant with curries, spicy and sour fish soups, satay, varied noodle dishes and the ubiquitous nasi lemak, Malaysian cuisine is complex, spicy and really hard to categorize...and the coolest thing is they love to eat with their hands. A practice we at Fatty Crab fully embrace."
Full bar. Serving lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Sat–Sun brunch 11 am–4 pm.
The New York Times: Top Pick
New York magazine: Critics' Pick
Zagat 2010: 22 food rating (very good to excellent)
Time Out New York: Critics' Pick
"The stuff is still super-funky, as is most of Fatty Crab's small-plates menu–straight-up Malaysian fare inspired by food [chef Zak] Pelaccio cooked and ate when he lived there."
– Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld, New York magazine, Oct 23, 2005