Generally, people who eat boiled hairy crabs are mainly people with heavy tastes. In the process of cooking, they can add various spices according to their own preferences, including pepper, pepper, star anise, fragrant leaves, salt, etc., so that the crabs made are salty and fragrant.

If you don't want to put any seasoning in the boiled crab, it is more appropriate to steam it, because the steamed crab meat is more tender.

Hairy crabs are a kind of river crabs, whose scientific name is Eriocheir sinensis. It is widely distributed on the long coastline from the south of Liaoning to the Pearl River in the north of China. Among them, the hairy crabs produced by Taihu Lake, Gaoyou Lake and Yangcheng Lake in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are the top products, and the Yangtze River system has the largest output and the most delicious taste. Generally speaking, hairy crabs refer to Eriocheir sinensis in the Yangtze River system. At present, hairy crabs have been introduced to all the Great Lakes, and they have been bred near the Yangtze River estuary. After growing into young crabs, they migrate against the Yangtze River and grow in the branches of lakes and rivers in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The name of hairy crabs comes from Wu dialect.