Autumn wind, crab feet itch", said the Mid-Autumn Festival, hairy crabs began to market, at this time, Shanghai people's throats followed the itch, fall and winter, if you do not eat a few times on the hairy crabs, that in all likelihood, you are not an authentic Shanghainese. If you want to engage in a bit of flirtation, you can also three or five friends, a pot of wine, holding a crab to enjoy the flowers, it is not a happy place.
What is a hairy crab? River crabs, but not all river crabs, varieties must be Chinese velvet crabs, size must be more than three two. It is said that the name of the hairy crab has its origins: at that time, Suzhou, Kunshan crab fishermen, set up in the harbor between the gate, the gate is made of bamboo, hanging lights at night, the crab see the light, that is, follow the light to climb up the bamboo gates, this time only need to be in the gate one by one to catch, so it is called the hairy crab.
Often, people compare hairy crabs to the best in taste, because it has the necessary color, aroma, taste, shape and quality of food. Zhang Dai, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, once said that hairy crabs are "full of flavors without adding vinegar and salt".
Like ink in six colors, the piano has seven tones, hairy crabs also have more than one flavor: crab meat a flavor, crab paste a flavor, a flavor of crab, crab and a flavor. And crab meat, and divided into "four flavors": thigh meat, short and slender, taste like dried scallops; calf meat, long and tender, as beautiful as silverfish; crab body meat, white crystal, like white fish; crab roe, unspeakable, can not be compared. The crab is a seafood treasure after exposure to dry, the first flavor of seafood.
When it comes to hairy crabs, you can't leave out the Shanghainese. Shanghai people and hairy crab love affair, just like the northeast people and pickled cabbage noodles, Sichuan people and boiled fish, as hard to part with. According to incomplete statistics, during the hairy crab market, each Shanghai people eat an average of 12.5 hairy crabs per year.
There is also a saying circulating in Shanghai, "nine female and ten male," meaning that female crabs are eaten in September and male crabs are eaten in October, which of course is said to be September and October in the lunar calendar.
In fact, in addition to "nine female and ten male", Shanghai people eat hairy crabs, there are many other things.
For example, because the crab is cold, so there must be warm things with: some people eat crab must drink yellow wine, and yellow wine must be hot; some people eat crab dipped in ginger, which can be absolutely a technical job, ginger different hairy crab flavor will be a thousand miles; there are also people to eat the crab when not dipped in anything to eat after drinking ginger tea, in order to maintain the original flavor of the hairy crab fresh, and not be Ginger vinegar stole the limelight. Everyone has different tastes, so just take what you need.
For example, eating crabs to play mood. In the ancient times, people used to recite poems about crabs and play with their moods. Nowadays, people no longer poetry, but the mood is equally important, so good at eating crabs came up with a green or white porcelain plate with golden hairy crabs, pleasing to the eye, the crab eaters will feel that the taste of the crab is also followed by a more delicious.
And, before buying crabs are on the market or in the supermarket pick and choose, the former by their own experience, the latter is optimistic about the brand. Today, Shanghai people as long as a day or two in advance to dial an eight-digit phone number, you can sit at home and wait for the crab door to door, "30,000 hectares of" Taihu Lake freshwater crab unique launch of the booking of the gift crab, really let the Shanghai people to see what is called the day of the taste of the crab.
Whether or not the same day crab is an important criterion for judging the quality of hairy crabs, indicating that people are no longer satisfied with the freshness of live crabs. In addition, under the premise of the same Chinese velvet crab species, the water quality determines the advantages and disadvantages of hairy crabs. Businesses have also played their own signboards, Yangcheng Lake, claiming that the lake water is crystal clear, and "30,000 hectares" Taihu Lake clear water crabs have also come up with their strengths, called me on the production of the water source in Shanghai, Tai Po locks ...... in the end which is good, not as good as to personally go to visit
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