How to Use the Lemon and Hot Towel You’re Given in Restaurants

Published on Monday, March 2, 2009, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

How to Use the Lemon and Hot Towel You’re Given in Restaurants

Annette Yang, owner of Nettie’s Crab Shack, shares a very quick tip about eating crab in a restaurant: When your server brings you a lemon and hot towel at the end of the meal, squirt the lemon onto the towel and then wipe off your hands. The lemon juice removes the crab smell and stickiness from your skin. (Here’s how to get your hands dirty with crab in the first place.)

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  • The lemon juice gets squirted in the eyes of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal that is attacking you, and the towel gets wrapped around your face to cover your eyes.

  • The hot towels are for under-the-table foot rubs and the lemon goes in your tea, silly!