Drum-plate dragon crab is one of the four hot dishes in the ninth white banquet menu of Manchu-Han banquet. This dish is said to be named Dragon Crab with Drum Plate because it looks like a drum plate. Dragon and crab meat is fresh, sweet, thick and solid. It tastes more refreshing than crab meat and smoother than lobster meat. Dragon Crab with Drum Plate is a pictographic dish, which is made by mixing crab meat, thorn meat and shrimp glue into a drum plate shape, dipping it in swelling powder and frying it.

Nutritional value:

Shrimp: Shrimp is nutritious, soft and easy to digest. It is an excellent food for people who are weak and need to be nursed back to health after illness. Shrimp meat is rich in magnesium, which can protect cardiovascular system, reduce cholesterol content in blood, prevent arteriosclerosis, dilate coronary artery, and help prevent hypertension and myocardial infarction. Shrimp also has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, promoting lactation and resisting toxicity, nourishing blood and solidifying essence, removing blood stasis and removing toxic substances, invigorating qi and strengthening yang, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, stimulating appetite and resolving phlegm.

Crab meat: Crab meat is rich in protein and trace elements, which has a good nourishing effect on the body. Dragon crab has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, tonifying bone and marrow, nourishing tendons and blood circulation, benefiting limbs and joints, nourishing liver yin and invigorating gastric juice, and has certain therapeutic effects on blood stasis, jaundice, lumbago and leg pain and rheumatoid arthritis. Dragon crab has anti-tuberculosis effect, which is beneficial to the rehabilitation of tuberculosis.

Wheat flour: Flour is rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. It has the effects of tonifying heart and kidney, strengthening intestine, clearing away heat and quenching thirst, and is mainly used for treating constipation, vexation and thirst, diarrhea, carbuncle, traumatic hemorrhage and scald.

Starch (broad bean): Broad bean is rich in calcium, zinc, manganese and phospholipids. It is an important component of brain and nerve tissue, rich in choline, which can increase memory and strengthen brain. For those who are coping with exams or mental work, eating some broad beans properly may have certain effects. Protein in broad bean can delay arteriosclerosis, and crude fiber in broad bean skin can reduce gallbladder fixation and promote intestinal peristalsis. At the same time, broad bean is also one of the anti-cancer foods, which has a certain effect on preventing intestinal cancer.