How to distinguish Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs?
Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, produced in Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou, Jiangsu, is a famous Chinese product known at home and abroad. Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are big and fat, generally three weighing 500 grams, the bigger ones weigh more than 250 grams each,
The biggest can reach 500 grams, green back white belly golden claws yellow hair, ten limbs are strong, crab meat is full, rich in nutrition. Since ancient times, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs have made countless gourmets fall for them.
Yangcheng Lake crabs have long been known as the best of all crabs. This is related to the special ecological environment of Yangcheng Lake. The water area covers hundreds of miles, with rippling waves, clear and pure water like a mirror, shallow water, hard bottom, lush aquatic plants, wide extension, suitable climate, which is just the ideal "crystal palace" for crabs to settle and grow in Yangcheng Lake. Therefore, the shape and flesh of Yangcheng Lake crabs are very different from those of other crabs.
There are four major characteristics in shape: one is green back, the carapace is bluish gray, smooth and shiny; the second is white belly, the navel and carapace that stick to the mud are crystal white without black spots;
The third is yellow hair, the hair on the crab legs is long and yellow, standing up straight; the fourth is gold claw, the crab claw is golden yellow, firm and powerful, it can stand firmly on glass with eight legs, two pincers in the air, the umbilical back raised, looking mighty.
The flesh is tender and delicious. After eating, even if you eat other good delicacies, your mouth will be tasteless. Just within kilometers away from Yangcheng Lake, Zhicheng Lake also produces a lot of lake crabs, but due to the influence of sea tides,
The belly is not white, the hair is slightly black, and the flesh is far less delicious than that of Yangcheng Lake crabs. Even the lake crabs in the same area cannot be compared, let alone the crabs in other areas, which are much inferior.
Hold crabs and drink wine to indulge in eating
In addition to the anti-counterfeiting ring, you can also identify by the four external features of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, namely green back, white belly,
golden claws and yellow hair; since last year, all those sold in the market are not Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs. Now Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are only sold in specialty stores and authorized supermarkets.
Now there are really not many restaurants that are fresh and creative. Last weekend, I invited my friends to Chongyi Crab Garden, Taohua Island, Yangcheng Lake to eat home-style dishes. In fact, it was my first time here. My husband has been here twice and said it was pretty good. Because we need to take a ten-minute speedboat and then eat on a homemade boat, so it sounds quite interesting. It just happened that I invited my friends for dinner, so we came together. We drove here ourselves, so it was still convenient. After driving for a few minutes past the Taohua Island pier, we arrived. Because I had informed the boss in advance, he came to pick us up. It was quite late when we went, but fortunately, the moonlight was nice. It turns out that taking a speedboat at night feels really good, cool and comfortable, making people feel very relaxed.
Because we called the boss a day in advance, he prepared a sumptuous feast. Not long after sitting down, he served his own fruits and corn cobs. They were indeed better than those sold outside. The boss was very kind. They are local people, and their rustic simplicity was evident. After chatting for a while, the dishes started to come one after another: small dried fish from the countryside, clear-stewed free-range chicken, scallion-braised snails, steamed crayfish, steamed mandarin fish, crabs (early-season crabs, this season only these are available, hairy crabs are not yet on the market), sweet and sour eel, stir-fried hollowheart greens, salted duck eggs (self-cured at home, extraordinarily fragrant), boiled soybeans. Anyway, there were four of us, slowly eating and chatting, and in the end, we almost finished everything, which shows how delicious it was. Haha, let me savor it slowly and then introduce their home-style dishes to you one by one next time.