Sand crabs can be eaten.
Sand crabs, very smart, not easy to catch, the mud of the sea is not suitable for digging holes and take, and often there is a "head to head holes", you dug here, it ran to there. Fishermen according to the sand crab to see things that are firmly clamped characteristics, with a rope into the hole, slowly pull it out of the method of trapping, commonly known as "pulling sand crab".
The sand crabs are not suitable for cleaning or raising in water, so they are still covered with mud and dirt in the market. However, the crab is inexpensive and delicious, and after frying, it is the most popular meat dish with wine and rice.
Sand crab body small feet are even smaller, eat up a lot of trouble, the townspeople tend to chew with the shell, the flavor is also good. At the same time, the Sanbei family has a small pounding mortar, which is used to grind the sand crabs into crab paste, add some salt and wine, and then bottle it to marinate it and give it to distant friends and relatives, or store it until the off-season of the sand crabs to eat it again.
Expanded Information
As the name suggests, sand crab juice is the juice made from sand crabs. In Beihai City, Guangxi Province, the sea is very rich in sand crabs, which will come out of their holes to the beach at low tide.
Sand crab juice is completely "raw", there is no heating and cooking steps in the production process, so the sand crab juice with a fishy flavor, but it tastes very fragrant. It has become a kind of "stinky tofu" for those who like it, but for those who don't, it's just a nasty smell.
Shark crab juice is a very tasty seasoning, when eating white cut chicken as a dip, eating will bring back memories. Stewed bean curd with crab juice is a famous dish in Beihai, Guangxi Province. Even if you just put a little bit of crab juice in your congee, it will give you a big appetite.
This is an authentic Beihai specialty dipping sauce, almost all local people like. A few outsiders have eaten a lot of praise. In addition to the field is not sold in a class of specialty dipping sauce.
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