"My wife is from Jiangsu, and in November last year, our family went back to Jiangsu, ate at the restaurant in the evening, and ordered crab for the first time. In the past so many years, we have never ordered crabs in the restaurant, it is too expensive, it is ridiculously expensive. Now, 4 pairs of crabs are only 38 yuan. At the table, the old people are talking, "anti-corruption has made the price acceptable to the people." This "38 yuan" made a deep impression on me, and I guess that the eight regulations and the correction of the "four winds" in the past two years must have reduced the cost of living of many ordinary people. Bai Yansong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and host of CCTV, said.
The "Ming ShiGong" records the grand situation of eating crabs during the osmanthus season: "In August, new wine is made, and crabs are fattened." Where the palace is known as the inner minister to eat crabs, wash them alive, steam them with pu color, ripen them in five or six, sit and eat together, giggle and laugh, open the umbilical cap, finely use their fingernails to pick, dip vinegar new to accompany wine, or don't crab breastbones, intact as butterflies or to show ingenuity. After eating, drink osmanthus soup, wash your hands with osmanthus flowers, and also for the grand event. "Just after the autumn of the big crab, the tip of the tooth is still fresh, let's count the top ten most expensive crabs in the country."
Hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake
This crab is produced in Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and is a famous Chinese product at home and abroad. Yangcheng Lake water hairy crab, a large body fat, generally three weigh 500 grams, the large one only weighs more than 250 grams, the largest can reach 500 grams, green back white belly golden claw yellow hair, ten limbs, crab meat plump, rich nutrition. Since ancient times, the hairy crab of Yangcheng Lake has fascinated countless diners. Mrs. Tang Guoli, Mrs. Zhang Taiyan, has a poem: "It is not Yangcheng crab that tastes good, why live in Suzhou in this life!" ”
Yangcheng Lake crab has always been known as the crown of crabs. This is related to the special ecological environment of Yangcheng Lake. The water is hundreds of miles in circumference, the blue waves are rippling, the water quality is as pure as a mirror, the water is shallow and hard, the water grass is lush, the extension is wide, the climate is appropriate, and it is the most ideal crystal palace for crabs to settle and grow. Therefore, the shape and meat quality of Yangcheng Lake crabs are very different in the crab family. The form has four major characteristics: one is the green back, the crab shell is green mud color, smooth and shiny; the second is the white belly, the mud-attached umbilical carapace, crystal white, no ink color spots; the third is yellow hair, the hair of the crab leg is long and yellow, the root is straight; the fourth is the golden claw, the crab claw is golden, solid and powerful, placed on the glass plate, eight feet upright, double claws in the air, the umbilical back is raised, and the majestic wind is imposing. The meat is tender and delicious, and after eating, eating other good dishes will be tasteless. Just a few kilometers away from Yangcheng Lake, Yancheng Lake, lake crab production is also more, but affected by the tide, the belly is not white, the hair is slightly black, and the meat quality is far less delicious than the Yangcheng Lake crab. Lake crabs in the same realm cannot be compared, and crabs in other regions are even more inferior. Therefore, Yangcheng Lake crab has long been well-known overseas, known as "Chinese golden velvet crab".
Tianjin purple crab
This is a type of Chinese velvet crab, which is small, only the size of a coat button. When the crab lid is uncovered, the crab yellow is purple with pork liver, and when cooked, it becomes orange-red, and the taste is extremely delicious. Purple crabs are produced in the cold and windy winter, so they are often used in assorted hot pots. Every winter, they live in mud holes in river embankments and must break through the ice and be harvested. Although this thing is small, the abdomen is white and mud-free, and it tastes delicious. Because its crab yellow is unusually rich, through the thin crab lid, it shows a layer of purple, hence the name. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was a tribute.
Laizhou big crab
This crab is a famous specialty of Ye County. Because Ye County was the seat of Laizhou Capital in ancient times, the name of Laizhou Crab has been passed down to this day. The back of the Laizhou crab has three bulges, the anterior lateral edge has 9 serrated teeth, and the last tooth is particularly long, shaped like a pike, so it is commonly known as "three warts pike crab". This crab is large and fresh, and the meat is tender. The largest female crab weighs 0.75 kg. The egg pieces of the female crab, the fat paste of the male crab, the snow white and pink muscles in the cheet and the meat on the hind legs of the crab are even more delicious and evocative.
Liaoning Xingcheng pike crab
The meat of this crab is white in color, tender in texture, creamy like gelatin, delicious in taste, and is the top product of sea crab. Pike crab is the most common sea crab on the market. In animal taxonomy, it belongs to the crustacean of the phylloscopic phylloscopus. Its cephalothorax has 9 serrated teeth on the left and right sides of the leading edge of the cephalothorax, and the last tooth is the longest, and the transverse side is prominent, so that the middle of the cephalothorax is wide, the sides are thin, and it resembles a shuttle for weaving, hence the name.
Of the 275 species of crabs on Earth, the pike crab has the greatest economic value. Common ones are the Red Star Pike Crab, the Sea Pike Crab and the Three Wart Pike Crab. These three species of pike crabs are also subgenus of pike crabs, which have horizontal grain ridges or swarms of particles on the surface of the cephalothorax. The nail partition is obvious. The frontal margin has 4 small teeth. Compound eye 1 pair, with stalk. There are 5 pairs of foot foot, the first pair is large and hard, called clawed foot, and the fifth pair of step feet is flat as a paddle, called swimming foot, with strong swimming ability. Therefore, pike crabs are listed as benthic swimmers.
South Lake Crab
This crab is produced in the Hangzhou, Jia and Lake water network areas of Zhejiang Province, and is known for its individual fatness and delicious meat. The lake crabs here used to reproduce naturally and were caught and marketed every year during the flood season. Artificial breeding and stocking have now begun, with some results.
Yanting river crab
This crab is a famous aquatic product of Yanting in Pingyang County, Zhejiang Province, and is famous at home and abroad for its delicious taste. Yanting is located at the sea of the Ao River, is the confluence of cold and warm ocean currents, rich in bait, is a unique breeding place for river crabs, so it is rich in river crabs.
Chaoshan red crab
This crab is the Chaoshan cream crab, the scientific name is saw-edge blue crab, is a famous seafood in Chaoshan in Guangdong. Cream crabs are the female crabs with the fullest ovaries; female crabs that have been fertilized but have less full ovaries are called "mothers": slightly fuller crabs are called "flower crabs"; while male crabs are only used for stir-frying, and are collectively called "meat crabs" with unfertilized female crabs. Female crabs caught from the sea, the ovaries are not full, and artificial fattening is carried out to make them "cream crabs". The well-bred crab has thick legs and fat, and after steaming, it is delicious and abnormal, and its nutritional value is very high.
Weishan Lake drunken crab
This crab is a traditional specialty of Shandong and has a history of more than 200 years. This kind of drunken crab is made of fresh crabs and a variety of spices produced by Weishan Lake, and the stained drunken crab is still lifelike, and the color and shape are still like live crabs. Uncovering the crab cover crab meat snow white, crab yellow bright red, after the entrance of the wine is rich, delicious and abnormal, unique flavor, is a treasure on the severe winter feast.
Tunxi drunken crab
This crab is a famous specialty of Tunxi, Anhui Province, which has a history of more than 140 years. Tunxi drunken crab is complete, yellowish in color, tender in flesh and rich in wine, which is a treasure at the banquet. Sealed drunken crabs can be stored for two months without deterioration.
Zhiliao crab
This crab is produced in Zhiliao Village, Wuyang Township, Wuchuan County, Guangdong Province, and is a well-known crab in China and abroad. The reason why Zhiliao crab is famous is mainly because the meat of this crab is extremely delicious, and there is a unique "top corner paste", opening the crab shell of Zhiliao crab, you can see a layer of egg-yellow crab paste covering the snow white crab meat. When cooked, the crab meat is snow-white, the crab paste is golden, and the entrance is delicious and tender, which is endlessly evocative. After the autumn, the Zhiliao crab not only grows fat, but also grows a soft shell under the hard shell, not only the crab meat crab yellow and delicious, the soft shell is even more insatiable.