Is that a piece of bacon on top of that cupcake? Yes! It was Buzz’s cupcake of the month… peanut butter bacon cupcake!! Of course, I had to try it, as I love the sweet and savory combo (have you put m&m’s in your movie popcorn?).

It was a chocolate cupcake, with a peanut butter frosting, with just a small sprinkle of bacon on top. Very intriguing – the peanut butter frosting was actually too sweet and overpowered the salty bacon… glad I tried it, but can’t say it was a winning combination for me.

The other good thing about Buzz Bakery is that it caters to those with celiac disease… gluten-free cupcakes and brownies that taste just as good as the regular ones!

BUZZ
901 Slaters Lane
Alexandria, VA

We ordered a dozen crabs. There was this salt mixture on the table. It was salt, pepper, paprika and thyme.

Other dipping sauce, malt vinegar. I don’t like it because it smells like stinky feet, and I wish they had rice vinegar instead.

After a couple of minutes, the waiter brought a big piece of paper to put over the table, and a piece of wood. I was hoping to get a nice wooden hammer, but oh well, we were in Dumfries, it might be too dangerous to give a hammer to a drunk customer. You never know who’s the wife beaters, since everyone was wearing one…

While crabs were being steamed, I took a picture of the river from my table.

Here comes the goods. Perfectly steamed, smeared with the salt mixture, with wipes (which is a joke, since my fingers smelled like crab until next morning), and lemon wedges.

Let me tell you. This place was for REAL. I’ve had crabs at many places, but this was the freshest crabs I have ever had in my life. I’ve had big crabs in Japan. But we Japanese don’t use hammers to crack crabs. We are too polite to the dead animal, so we use a knife, scissors, cracker, and other devices, but I will tell my mom to buy a wooden hammer. It was very easy to crack. These crabs weren’t that big and the process was very labor intensive. You first crack the hand, suck the meat out, then move to the body.

If I was with my mom, she would slurp the guts, but I didn’t. Did you know lump crab meat comes from near the butt of a crab? That was a new findings while eating it. Also I have a complete new respect and understanding of why lump crab meat is so expensive. I want to know how crab shackers can extract the meat without breaking the delicate meat. It was so hard, and being me, the most impatient person, I basically put everything in my mouth and spat out the shells. I also found out not all the crab meat is red (or pink) and white. These guys were almost brown and white. You think it’s kind of gross looking at brown, but it was so flavorful, sweet and yummy.

I bet I can make a nice broth out of the shells.

Who builds a red coconut tree in the middle of white trash town in VA? Tim’s does.

It kind of look like some restaurant you see on the ocean front, but Tim’s was totally in the ghetto land. I was the only Asian, and I saw two Black people, and everyone else was white. All the girls hair was totally teased up, and blond, and all the guys had mustache. Real.

On a side note, this is what my friend got as “thank you” gift from one of the kid’s parent. Can you believe this? Money flowers! People down there are very creative, in a trashy way…

We came home, put all the clothes in the washer, then took shower… I will definitely go back with a group of people. Definitely worth it.

Tim’s Rivershore Restaurant & Crabhouse
1510 Cherryhill Road
Dumfries, VA 22026
T: 703.441.1375