Autumn wind blows, crab legs itchy, chrysanthemums bloom, and smell crabs come. Every autumn is the season for eating crabs. At this time, the crabs are fat and fresh, and the crab roe is covered with mellow taste!
During the Southern Song period, Jinshi Xu Sidao became the county magistrate in his fifties. He lived a difficult life. Even so, he loved crabs very much. He once wrote in the poem "Traveling in Lushan Mountain to Get Crabs": Lushan let down his eyes and not eat crabs. Look, compare crabs with Lushan together, you can imagine how fascinating the deliciousness of crabs made County Magistrate Xu Da!
Crabs are important to eat golden September and silver October, which means that in September, the crabs have the richest crabs and the most fragrant taste. Especially as Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, many families will have a crab for Mid-Autumn Festival dinner. The family eats crabs while watching the moon! To be honest, Lao Yu likes to gather all the crab roe in the crab cover, use a spoon to fill it up, put it in his mouth and taste it slowly, it feels like eating a sandy and glutinous salted egg yolk. !
However, have you noticed a problem? When eating crabs in the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are both hairy crabs, river crabs and hairy crabs on the market. However, looking at the appearance, these crabs look similar, so the question is the hairy crab, river crab and hairy crab. What is the difference between them?
River crab = hairy crab = hairy crab
Yes, friends are not wrong! The scientific name of river crab is Chinese mitten crab, In addition, its alias is also called hairy crab, hairy crab , it is a traditional aquatic product in China! In other words, as long as the sells hairy crabs, river crabs and hairy crabs on the market, they are actually the same variety . This is also the main reason why Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs can be eaten nationwide, because these crabs are all of the same variety. It plays a role in making the real one!
Many friends will ask: Lao Yu, since river crabs, hairy crabs, and hairy crabs are all the same variety, why do you rather spend more money than eat hairy crabs? In fact, this involves the issue of water quality, the growth environment of crabs, and the crab background! Everyone can understand the water quality and environment, but what is the background?
In fact, hairy crabs were not famous in ancient times! According to the records in "Youyang Miscellaneous Stories·Volume 7·Wine and Food" in the Tang Dynasty, people before mainly ate sea crab , but because the sea crab tastes fishy, they gradually looked at it. Pay attention to the river crab! In addition, before the Southern Song Dynasty, the main political and cultural centers were in the north. Therefore, the river crabs of that era were the most famous for the river crabs produced in the Baiyang River area of Hebei!
After the Southern Song Dynasty, as the focus of political culture moved south, hairy crabs began to rise! Speaking of this, I want to tell you why it is called river crabs and hairy crabs in the north, but when it reaches the south, it is called hairy crabs!
As we all know, Shanghai is abbreviated as Shanghai! So, what was Shanghai in ancient times? The Tang Dynasty poet Lu Guimeng once said: rows of bamboos in Haishang are called Shanghai! means that at that time, that is, in the current Songjiang area, fishermen would use fences woven by bamboo branches to insert them into shallow water to catch crabs, and using fences to catch crabs was called Shanghai in ancient times!
Secondly, crab catching is the crab used to fold crabs, also called Dazha , so in the south is called hairy crab! In the north, because crabs live in rivers, streams, and lakes, and the claws of crabs have fluff, it is called river crabs or hairy crabs in the north!
Secondly, many friends think that river crab (hairy crab) is freshwater crab , but it is actually wrong! The river crab we eat, whether it is called hairy crab or hairy crab, as long as it is breeding, it must breed its offspring in the shallow sea! Adult crabs that reproduce after will die due to physical overdrawing; the remaining young crabs will return to the area where Tamsui live after several molts.
So, whether a crab is delicious or not depends on its name, but on the waters, environment and other factors in which it lives. The hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake are famous because of their high requirements for water quality, so they cultivate the hairy crabs they love!
For example, everyone knows that Lao Yu lives in Qingdao . There is a Dagu River that leads to the sea. The river crabs here are very close to the sea and the water quality is very good, so the river crabs produced and Hairy crabs are not inferior to each other.
So, Lao Yu believes that eating crabs in the Mid-Autumn Festival does not necessarily have to be hairy crabs from Yangcheng Lake. Even the local river crabs are also good! Secondly, many friends say that eating river crabs is too troublesome, the shell is too hard, and the meat is too little, don’t worry, Lao Yu is sharing a super simple way to eat crabs!
First, separate the crabs from the belly, scrape all the crab roe, crab paste in the crab cover with chopsticks, drizzle a small spoonful of ginger vinegar sauce, and then slowly taste the delicious food.
After eating crab roe, use scissors to remove the crab legs, crab lungs, and crab hearts, and eat large pieces of crab meat first.
As for the meat on the crab legs, just use chopsticks to lightly come out! Isn't it very simple? Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Here I wish you all happiness, happiness and health! Good fortune, fortune, fortune!
