Pike crab is more expensive. The price of red armor red and flower cover is currently only about half that of pike crabs, with the larger ones costing 35 dollars a pound, and the smaller ones being available for 30, or even 25.
Red armor red and flower cover crab pure wild, there is no farmed, because of its character is too savage, put together will be constantly fighting, even if they are caught and put in the frame, but also each other fighting. The crabs are extremely resilient, so you don't have to worry about getting dead crabs, they're all alive and well, especially the red ones.
Selection tips for pike crabs:
Be sure to choose live crabs, dead crabs are cheap, but the taste and live crabs are worlds apart, not fresh and not fragrant, so we don't want to be cheap. Look at the appearance and color, the back of the color of the green translucent, the abdomen of the color of the white, and the lines deep and black, so the crab is more fat, the deeper the lines, the more black, the crab will be the more fat, but the whole abdomen are black can not be.
Mother crab we eat is its crab roe, male crab eat is its crab paste, as the saying goes, "nine female and ten male", that is to say, the lunar calendar before the eighth and ninth month is the most suitable to eat female crabs, this time the female crabs than the male crabs fat, but in October we have to eat the male crabs, because the male crabs in October, the crab paste is the most full, The meat is also more flavorful and full.