It is recommended to steam river crabs for about 15 minutes. If the steaming time is too short, the river crab will not be cooked, and the crab meat is not firm, but also easy to have bacteria or parasites. If you steam for too long, the meat of the crab will easily become old and the texture will become firewood.

How long is the best time to steam river crabs

The head and thorax of river crabs combine to form the cephalothorax armor that is square and hard. A pair of eyes grows at the front of the body and the sides have two pairs of very sharp crab teeth.

River crabs often burrow in the rivers, rivers, lakes and marshes of the mud bank, night activities, to fish, shrimp, animal carcasses and grains for food, and often migrate to the estuary out of the sea in the fall of each year to spawn.

River crab scientific name of the Chinese mitten crab, is a valuable freshwater products, delicious flavor, rich in nutrients, has a high economic value.