Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are from Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, a specialty of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China's national geographical indications products. Yangcheng Lake hairy crab is also known as gold claw crab. Produced in Suzhou Yangcheng Lake. Crab body does not stain the mud, commonly known as clear water hairy crab, large fat, green shell white belly, golden claw yellow hair, meat cream. Female crabs in September and male crabs in October of the lunar calendar have the best gonadal development. Cooked congealed, the female into a golden yellow, the male as white jade-like, delicious flavor.

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs formed by the distinctive four characteristics: one is the green back, Yangcheng Lake crab shell into a green-gray, smooth and shiny; two is the white belly, stick to the mud umbilical cord abdomen, crystalline white; three is the yellow hair, foot hair is long and yellow and erect; four is the golden claw, Yangcheng Lake crab claw gold and yellow firm and powerful, put on the glass can be eight feet standing up, the chelloids empty.

Screening Yangcheng Lake hairy crab authenticity methods:

Fullness (pinch method): Yangcheng Lake hairy crab is different from other crabs in the meat fullness, can be pinched pressure hairy crab calf part of the feeling of the meat is full, if it is not full, pinch up there will be a hollow feeling.

Green back (burning method): hairy crab back for the crab shell green, green shiny, refreshing, after burning, show red. Other crabs in the lake area have a heavy clay color, and when burned, they are gray with red.

White belly (brush method): hairy crab belly is white, white glossy, but not pure white, because of the lake water reasons, should be slightly water yellow, unlike other lake crabs belly is gray, using a brush to gently brush the shell, then, you can brush down the slightly water stained color attached to the shell of the dirt.

Golden claw (can be put on a smooth glass or tile test): hairy crab claw tip was a smoky golden yellow, two chelipeds and eight claws of meat, strong and powerful; put on a smooth glass plate or tile can be held up, crawling freely. Other lakes crab claws thin and weak, claw tip on no obvious golden color.

Yellow hair (can be used to squeeze the ao hair method): the velvet on the crab's chelipeds is dense and soft, and the whiskers are refreshing and yellow. Crab hairs in other lakes have a strong earthy color and are not clean. This method requires special attention to safety, and it is easy to get your fingers pinched.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs