Most old school seafood houses are kind of Bohemian and have a roll of brown butcher paper attached to the end of a picnic style table. New patron, roll up the old and pull the roll across. Dump the food on the table and go for it, especially a bushel of blue crab steamed in beer and old bay. Ain't nothing like sharing a bushel of crab, a dozen ears of corn, a plate of onion rings and a couple pitchers with total strangers at a table that looks like it goinna fall apart with the next fat redneck ass parked on it.
I use deveined tail on large shrimp because a pound of jumbo tiger prawns would be wasted on this recipe. This is a traditional meal of the Atlantic low country from Norfolk to the Texas coast. Folks put whatever they had into it. When you get over into the the Gulf Coast States they used crawfish, oysters, andouille, boudin, collards, gator, frog, duck, and even nutria in it and often added rice to soak up the cooking liquids and it became etoufe and gumbo and other traditional gulf coast dishes.