Photo Essay: Hairy Crabs
Never understood the Chinese taste for dirty and skimpy-fleshed freshwater hairy crabs that can go for hundreds of RMB per catty in fancy restaurants throughout the country. Aficionados say they like picking and sucking out the small strands of meat, especially the ‘xiehuang’ (reddish-yellow flesh) which is considered a delicacy and garnished as a delicious topping on shiumai and mixed into stuffing for dim sum style rice-flour dumplings.
In Germany, a similar crab is seen as a pest and exterminated. I guess one man’s waste is another man’s prize.
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