Crab Hot Lau

Crab Hot Lau Visit us and discover the rich culinary heritage of Northern Vietnam. COME & TRY 🦀

06/20/2026

Our Black Pepper Steak Bánh Mì has quickly become our most requested sandwich since we launched our program.

Each order begins with tender steak seared in a hot wok with freshly cracked black pepper, then layered into a crisp bánh mì with house-pickled vegetables, cucumber, cilantro, and our signature sauce.

The bread has always mattered to us. Cherry’s husband’s family was in the bánh mì bread business in Vietnam, where an understanding of texture, structure, and freshness was passed down through generations. It’s a small detail, but one that continues to shape how we think about every sandwich we serve.

Prepared to order, balanced in texture, and made with the same attention to detail that has kept it a guest favourite from the beginning.

📍 Granville — 2993 Granville St
📍 Kingsway — 2141 Kingsway
📍 UBC — 2192 Western Parkway

06/17/2026

These Vietnamese spots are the best in the city for 2026.

06/13/2026

Vancouver has the World Cup. You bring the fans. We’ll take care of the food.

Order ahead and pick up/deliver from Granville, Kingsway, or UBC before the match starts.

A table filled with Nem Cua Biển (Square Crab Spring Rolls), Chả Mực (Ha Long Squid Cake), and steaming bowls of Bánh Đa Cua Đồng beats cooking on game day.

Gather your crew, choose your team, and enjoy match day the Northern Vietnamese way.

🏆 Vancouver’s Best Vietnamese Restaurant — Two Years Running

📍 Granville — 2993 Granville St
📍 Kingsway — 2141 Kingsway
📍 UBC — 2192 Western Parkway

06/09/2026

A quick stop after work. A friends’ gathering that turns into dinner. A bubble tea run that somehow becomes snacks, bánh mì, and one more round for the table.

That’s exactly what our Happy Hour menu is for.

Join us every weekday from 3–5pm and after 8pm for a selection of customer favourites at special pricing.

🍴 $10 Eats
• Chicken Wings
• Salad Rolls
• Spring Rolls
• Bánh Mì Pâté & Egg
• Bánh Mì Lemongrass Chicken

🥤 $5 Drinks
• Vietnamese Iced Coffee
• Bubble Tea

Come for Happy Hour, stay a little longer. Catch up with friends, share a few plates, and settle in for a meal if the conversation keeps going.

Available at all locations!

05/27/2026

A little story behind one of our diners’ favourite dishes, from our very own Chef Cherry. ❤️

“Every time I make our crab spring rolls, it brings me back home to Hải Phòng, the coastal city where I grew up.

Back home, we call this dish “Nem Cua Bể,” our traditional Hải Phòng crab spring rolls. The filling is classic to where I’m from — pork, shrimp, crab, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, glass noodles, egg, and bean sprouts. In Hải Phòng, we keep the filling focused on the seafood and texture rather than adding lots of vegetables. Simple ingredients, carefully balanced.

When I moved to Vancouver, I never expected to find seafood that reminded me so much of home. Then I discovered fresh BC crab. The sweetness, firmness, and freshness immediately connected me back to the flavours I grew up with beside the ocean.

Over time, these spring rolls became a reflection of both places that shaped me, Hải Phòng and BC. I still import the traditional rice paper wrapper from Vietnam because it fries lighter and crispier the way we do it back home, but the crab itself here is truly incredible.

One of the best compliments I receive is hearing visitors from Hải Phòng tell me these rolls remind them of home… and sometimes even say they love the crab here more.

Every crab spring roll we serve carries a little piece of my story with it.”

📍 Granville - 2993 Granville St
📍 Kingsway - 2141 Kingsway
📍 UBC - 2192 Western Pkwy

Some dishes don’t need introduction. They just need time, and the right hands.Pork belly braised low and slow. A single ...
04/24/2026

Some dishes don’t need introduction. They just need time, and the right hands.

Pork belly braised low and slow. A single egg, steeped in the same rich sauce until it’s deep and savory all the way through. Steamed claypot rice underneath, pressed warm against everything above it.

This is Northern Vietnamese home cooking. The kind a grandmother makes without measuring anything.

Come as you are. Bring an appetite.

📍 Granville - 2993 Granville St
📍 Kingsway - 2141 Kingsway

Every dish at Crab Hot Lau traces back to one person.Chef Cherry Pham ❤️Her recipes. Her standards. Her kitchens, across...
04/19/2026

Every dish at Crab Hot Lau traces back to one person.

Chef Cherry Pham ❤️

Her recipes. Her standards. Her kitchens, across all three locations.

She didn’t bring Hải Phòng cooking to Vancouver just to hand it off. The fish cake, the square crab spring rolls, the broths that take hours to build, these are her work, shaped by her hands and her memory, and she stays closely involved in every kitchen that brings them to life.

Because this kind of cooking is about care, time, and doing things the way they’re meant to be done.

If you’ve ever wondered what that really tastes like, you’ll find it here.

📍 Granville - 2993 Granville St
📍 Kingsway - 2141 Kingsway
📍 UBC - 2192 Western Pkwy

A spring roll can hold a whole city in it.Nem Cua Biển - our Square Crab Spring Rolls - are ordered at nearly every tabl...
04/12/2026

A spring roll can hold a whole city in it.

Nem Cua Biển - our Square Crab Spring Rolls - are ordered at nearly every table, and once you bite in, you’ll understand why. A golden square shell cracks open to a rush of BC Dungeness crab meat, shrimp, pork, and shiitake - packed tight, bursting warm, nothing wasted.

Hand-wrapped in the traditional square rice-paper shell the way it’s always been done in Hải Phòng. Fried to a deep, even gold. The kind of crisp that gives way all at once.
This is the taste of a seafront city - the one where this recipe was born, carried here, and made with the best crab the BC coast has to offer. Dipped in our homemade fish sauce.

Granville - 2993 Granville St
Kingsway - 2141 Kingsway
UBC - 2192 Western Pkwy

04/08/2026

Lẩu Cua Đồng wasn’t made for eating alone.

It was made for a table that keeps getting louder, someone refilling the broth, someone sneaking the last of the crab roe, everyone staying longer than they planned.

Right now, every Crab Hot Pot Combo comes with a free one-time refill on veggies, noodles, and crab roe. Plus a free iced tea with any hotpot order. And if you come Monday through Friday between 3-5pm, Happy Hour takes 15% off the whole menu.

Round up your loved ones. We’ll have the broth ready.

📍 Granville - 2993 Granville St
📍 Kingsway - 2141 Kingsway

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04/04/2026

Every Northern Vietnamese grandmother had her own version of this broth. The proportions were never written down, ginger, red dates, a whole chicken, passed from one kitchen to the next, guided by memory and instinct.

At Crab Hot Lau, that’s where every dish begins, not just with ingredients, but with stories carried through generations.

That spirit is what’s in this pot.

A whole free-range chicken, gently simmered into a clear herbal broth layered with jujube, goji berries, and ginger. Served with silky tofu, mixed mushrooms, napa cabbage, glass noodles, and a selection of fresh seasonal vegetables, each element meant to be added slowly, building flavour as the meal unfolds.

It’s light, nourishing, and deeply comforting , the kind of hotpot that’s less about intensity, and more about depth and layers of flavours. A style rooted in the north, where broths are clean, balanced, and meant to be shared around the table.

Introducing our Silken Herbal Chicken Hotpot Set, now at Granville and Kingsway.

📍 Granville 2993 Granville St.
📍 Kingsway 2141 Kingsway

Address

2141 Kingsway
Vancouver, BC
V5N2T4

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 10:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 10:30pm
Thursday 9:30pm - 10:30pm
Friday 10am - 2am
Saturday 10am - 2am
Sunday 10am - 1am

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+16044233633

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