Latest price of butter crabs:

Top quality head hand butter crabs can fetch up to 2,000 yuan a piece.

Butter crabs are generally categorized into A, B and C grades.

Generally, A grade butter crabs of more than 5 taels cost more than 450 yuan each, B grade can also sell for more than 300 each, and C grade butter crabs of poorer quality sell for 200 each.

The butter crab is expensive not only because it is delicious, but also because it is extremely rare. It is said that an average of 100 crabs only produce a wild butter crab, and because it is an abnormal mutation;

So the butter crab survival period is very short, usually in the late May of the lunar calendar to the Mid-Autumn Festival, only just two and a half months time. The vast majority of butter crabs sold on the market nowadays are semi-wild butter crabs that are bred in captivity.

The butter crab, formerly known as the paste crab, is a female green crab, so its appearance is no different from that of the paste crab. The difference is that the color of the steamed crab body is between red and yellow, and yellow oil can be seen on the crab cover and claw joints.

Butter crabs are a new and valuable species of crab in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and are famous in the South, and are known as the "king of crabs".