Live seafood takes centre stage at BBQ buffet dinner

Diners have lots of seafood choices on ice, such as flower crabs (front left), mussels, slipper lobsters, tiger prawns and lobsters.

THERE are not many places where you get to throw a fresh, as in still-crawling yabbie (Australian slang for crayfish) on the barbecue grill or into the boiling pot of superior stock steamboat.

Okay, “still-crawling” is not quite the term this writer was looking for, as The Federal Kuala Lumpur’s all-day dining kitchen at Kontiki makes sure the crustacean is very much dead when you grill or boil it in the new steamboat offering.