There is a common misunderstanding that bread crab is unpalatable.
Bread crab is the most unpalatable crab because the bread crabs we eat now are all frozen. How can frozen crabs taste good? The meat is not fresh and the taste is not delicious. In fact, people who like to eat bread crab will like him very much. People who don't like it will dislike it because its meat is hard and it doesn't taste like ordinary crabs.
The mantou crab belongs to the family Mantou Crabidae, and is a "close relative" of the expensive bread crab we are familiar with. Both crabs belong to the same family and genus of aquatic creatures, so judging from their appearance, the two crabs have the same length. Very similar. The steamed bun crab has many names in many places, such as Yuanbao crab, shy crab, spray crab, fool crab and so on.
Appearance characteristics
The dorsum of the bread crab's cephalothorax is very bulging, with five longitudinal verrucous protrusions on its surface, and soft hairs on its sides; its forehead is narrow, its front edge is sunken, and it is divided into 2 teeth; small eye sockets; granular teeth on the front edge; 3 teeth on the rear edge; 1 rounded blunt tooth in the middle of the rear edge, and 4 triangular sharp teeth on each side. The shape of the chelicerae is asymmetrical. The knuckles on the right side are thicker. When the chelicerae is contracted, it is close to the forehead. The steps are slender and smooth.
The male abdomen is long and strip-shaped. The third to fifth segments are healed and the joints can be discerned. The sixth segment is nearly rectangular and the seventh segment is sharply triangular. The female's abdomen is broad and elongated, with the sixth segment nearly rectangular and the seventh segment triangular.
The head and breastplate are light brown; the eye area has half annular russet spots; the outer joints and long joints of the claws have a russet spot; the tips of the legs are brown. The male cephalothorax is 62.0 mm long and 83.0 mm wide; the female cephalothorax is 70.0 mm long and 93.0 mm wide.