There are various ways to eat green crabs, such as steaming/steaming green crabs with ginger and yellow wine, popping green crabs with soy sauce, and stir-frying green crabs with rice cake.
But now the number of green crabs is very little, the market is also rarely sold green crabs, now the price of green crabs in the 160-200/catty or so, according to the size, origin and whether it is artificially cultured or wild and have some fluctuations, green crabs artificially cultured flavor and nutritional value than the wild to be a lot lower, but the overall price is still higher than the ordinary The price is still much higher than that of ordinary crabs.
The green crab is distributed in coastal cities, but mainly in China's Taiwan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces, which, in particular, is most famous for Zhejiang Province's Sanmen green crab, although the green crab is basically in the south of the coastal cities, but the well-developed courier cold-chain transportation has also brought people in the north of this delicious.
Sanmen green crab
Sanmen green crab in Zhejiang Province, is a specialty of Sanmen County, is also China's national geographic indications products, Sanmen is also known as the "township of the green crab", in foreign countries have a high degree of popularity. Sanmen green crab from the appearance of blue-green color, shell bright color, large and full, cooked and eaten meat is also very tasty, high protein and low fat, but also has a very high medicinal value. The appearance is summarized as "green back, yellow belly, golden claw, scarlet pincer".
How to pick the green crab
Because of the coordinates of the north, so can only be purchased online, learn some of the selection of green crab tips useless, but still try to go through the buyer's show to identify it.
We can turn the back of the crab, if the bottom of the yellow color heavier taste will be more delicious, and then a combination of buyer show and evaluation to pick. Because of the cold chain transportation, but the green crab in the transportation process may also die, so look for the "dead crab compensation" store to buy.
The ropes used to tie the crabs are thicker than normal crabs, because on one hand, the crabs are more aggressive, so the ropes are thicker to better control the crabs, but also because the thicker the ropes are, the more water can be absorbed, which will also reduce the death of the crabs in the process of transportation. So in the purchase of time also want to confirm with the store this binding rope is not counted in the weight, or will increase the weight of the green crab and offset, after all, the green crab is more expensive, if one-third of the payment to the rope, or very uneconomical.