Shrimp granny, also known as crawling shrimp. The body is long and flat. Large length of about ten centimeters wide about two or three centimeters. Meat. Grown in Haizhou Bay fishing grounds for more.
Haizhou Bay fishing grounds grow a kind of mollusks shaped like praying mantis and like shrimp, commonly known as "shrimp mother-in-law". The shrimp is big and meaty, and the female shrimp is usually the best. Recognize the female shrimp woman method is very simple, where the neck has a white block letters "Wang" that is. Cooked in brine, brine shrimp with the same name. People are also accustomed to the shrimp woman washed to the tail, with a rolling pin from its head to the tail extrusion of gravy, plus a small amount of batter, eggs into a pancake, commonly known as shrimp woman pancakes, stir-fried vegetables to make soup with its delicious flavor.
Spring crustacean seafood number of crabs, shrimp is the most fertile, under the iron armor have been stored in a shell of yellow. These two things, although the appearance of ugly, its meat is delicious, the old saying "crab over tasteless" said, shrimp taste is not second. Speaking of this shrimp woman, external shape like lobster, just no long tentacles. That a cloak of angular, hard texture, sharp edges such as knives, can bend and stretch, really like the ancient warrior's armor. Shrimp women when fresh armor is yellowish, spring shrimp women to female is better, all are "top shell yellow" (full of seeds, yellow, that is, seeds,). There is also a trick to selecting shrimp women, laymen often do not know the male and female. Experienced fishermen say, female neck below the three hidden white bar (lines), tail vaguely transparent shell visible soybean size of the dark red.
After the first month of the year, there is always a plate of shrimp on a decent banquet table in a restaurant, and the diners do it by themselves, carefully peeling off the iron armor, and then get a complete body. The lower part of the body white as jade, back a purple "yellow" (seed) from head to tail, like a purple gold bar. At this time, the shrimp woman's physical form is slightly curved, slightly pointed at both ends, very much like the ancient hairpin, can be named "purple jade hairpin". Thirty years ago, the shrimp is not on the official feast, fishermen caught when it is too much trouble to eat, most of them thrown away, if the catch is too much, they will use a rolling pin to take advantage of the freshness of the shrimp meat and yellow, spread out the kang into a thin shrimp pancake, cut into strips, fried leeks, the most delicious and tasty.
Nowadays, the spring boiled shrimp is a beautiful dish, and the price is very high. Because of its high price, ordinary people, although living on the beach, is not often eaten. Mainlanders first saw shrimp, most of them will be too ugly to eat. Many animals in the world are not the same as the inside and the outside. The uglier the outside, the more beautiful the inside, so if you judge a "person" by his or her appearance, you will really lose out. Fresh and beautiful things will always attract the strong invasion of food, to avoid being eaten, we must have the ability to protect themselves. Wear a hard armor with knives and thorns, so that the strong no mouth, probably also shrimp women to cope with the natural environment full of crisis protection measures.