Chinese Style Crab Feed
See pictures of past Chinese Style Crab Feeds in our Photos Section.
History
In 1994, the seven founding SASF board members (Jerry Chong, Eddie Fong, Robert Fong, Don Lee, Ray Lee, Barry Lim, and Rodney Yung) were looking for ways to raise funds to build a gym for the Asian community. Having hosted their first basketball tournament just months before, they were looking for an original idea. Eddie Fong and Don Lee spearheaded the idea of a hot cooked, Chinese Style Crab Feed. The board members made plans, pushed ticket sales, and enlisted their wives, families, and friends to help. The goal was to sell 500 tickets at $22.50 each. Confucius Hall was reserved, long tables were rented, and the hard work began.
On the big day, the cooking crew labored over giant woks in the downstairs kitchen as guests took their seats upstairs. Volunteers lined the staircase and pans of food were passed hand-to-hand, up two flights of stairs and into the dining hall.
Not knowing how the hot crab would be received, the board decided to serve both hot and cold crab. Diners were also served white rice, fried rice, dinner rolls, salami, celery and carrot sticks, oranges and fortune cookies. Guests were treated to carafes of wine and complimentary bingo cards.
Stuart Satow, the inaugural emcee, asked the crowd, “How do you like the Chinese Style crab?” The response was overwhelming. Today, the SASF Crab Feed continues to be a sold-out, annual event.
In 1998, the Sacramento Warlords decided to host a Chinese Style Crab Feed of their own, in addition to volunteering for the SASF fundraiser. The money raised from the annual fundraiser would benefit the program’s youth basketball teams. The first Sacramento Warlords Crab Feed was limited to 300 tickets, but the demand for admission grew each year. Today we have over 800 guests served by more than 200 volunteers.
It has been more than a decade since the inaugural Chinese Style Crab Feed. While many faces have changed over the years, there are many volunteers who have been there from the beginning. It is with their continual support and dedication that both crab feeds remain successful fundraising events.
The Sacramento Warlords would like to thank all of its volunteers, past and present, for their time and effort. Thank-you for the many years of cooking, cutting, slicing, scooping, chopping, tossing, breaking, loading, driving, serving, hauling, washing, mopping, cleaning and donating. Our crab feed and our program depends on the generosity of its many volunteers and supporters.
Special Thanks
Joey Lee, Amy Wong, Jim Fuji, Stuart Satow, Harley Inaba, Tim Matsumoto, Warlord alumni and families, and some of our longtime “Iron Chefs”–David Chan, Frank DeYoung, Eddie Fong, David Lau, Don Lee, Grant Lee, Valen Lee, Wing Lee, Art Lim, Gordy Low, Eddie (Shorty) Miyamoto, Dale Quan, Joanne Sugioka, Doug Tsuda, Al Lee Wong, and Kevin Wong
~Thank-you to all of our volunteers and patrons for another successful crab feed in 2010~
Coming Up
Sacramento Warlords 13th Annual Chinese Style Crab
January 2011
Seating/Social @ 6pm | Dinner @ 7pm
SASF Center (9040 High Tech Court)