Crabs are eaten all year round, but in autumn, it is the best season to eat crabs. "Nine females and ten males" and "September's umbilical cord, October's tip" are all talking about the time to eat crabs.

In September of the lunar calendar, the female crab eggs are full, the crab roe is fresh and fragrant, and the gonad of the male crab develops best in October. At this time, the yellow fat paste is white, and the crab paste tastes rich and smooth. It is said that "the autumn wind starts, the crab's feet itch, the chrysanthemums bloom, and the crabs come". Every September 9~ 10/October is the time when the crabs are yellow and full of oil, so some foodies say that "eating crabs is the most solemn thing in autumn".

There is also a saying that "the northwest wind blows, and the crab's feet itch", and there is another reason for eating hairy crabs: after the crabs are cold, the meat quality is tightened, and the taste is delicate and more elastic. Therefore, hairy crabs are the best in autumn10-1month.

Scientific eating method

The eating methods of hairy crabs include martial eating and literary eating. The so-called martial eating is the kind of civilian eating method of breaking, biting, chewing and swallowing crabs without any tools, while the literary eating is to carefully dig out every tiny crab meat of crab shells, crab legs and crab tongs with tools, and then put the empty crab shells and crab feet together after eating, just like a complete hairy crab.

However, it will take more than an hour to eat a crab like this, not only because you are not full, but you may have been hungry for a long time, so this way of eating can only rise to the height of crab culture, which is completely different from the level and feeling of eating crabs in a big bowl.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hairy Crab