The whole hairy crab is steamed, and then it is listed on the plate. It has to be peeled off by yourself to taste it. If someone else helps to shell and remove the nails, it will lose the fun of eating crabs. -but if the steamed taste is too weak, hairy crabs can also be boiled to eat. Hairy crabs Hairy crabs, in Cantonese, the word "Zha" sounds like "sa", which means boiled in water. Crabs eat by boiling water, which is "sa crab". If the kung fu comes home and the heat is well controlled, the savory taste of sa crab is definitely different from that of steamed crab.
This way of eating is recorded in Yuan Mei's Menu with the Garden, a gourmet in the Qing Dynasty: "Crabs should be eaten alone, not with other things. It is best to cook it with light salt soup and peel it for yourself. Although the steamer tastes full, it is too weak. "