Hot water. Boiling water to cook the crab, can keep the crab tender texture, cook out the flavor more fresh. If it is cooked in cold water, the cooking time in the water will be a little longer, during the period of the crab fresh flavor and its nutrition, there will be a certain degree of loss, and the meat will be older, the taste is not as good as boiling water under the pot to cook.

The crab belongs to the soft armor, decapod, is a crustacean, the body is protected by a hard shell, relying on gills to breathe. In biological taxonomy, it and shrimp, lobster, hermit crabs are the same kind of animal. The vast majority of species of crabs live in the sea or offshore areas, with some inhabiting freshwater or land. Common crabs include pike crabs, distant sea pike crabs, green crabs and Chinese mitten crabs (river crabs, hair crabs, clear water crabs).