About Hairy crab

It is fall again，a season of tasting hairy crab. Eating hairy crab became a symbol represented Shanghainese culture. To eat most fresh hairy crab, Shanghainese may drive to Yanchenghu Lake located in Kunshan which is the nearest city far from Shanghai. In this season, you could find many restaurants which are cooking crab around the lake.

        According to native Shanghainese tradition, crab in Yanchenghu has the highest quality. So, in recent years, the price of hairy crab from Yanchenghu has rocked and people found eating authentic crab became a mission impossible. Most of high-quality crabs have been exported to international market to get higher profit.

        Therefore, many native peasants carried younger crab to other lakes to feed. When crab season is coming, they transferred the crab to Yanchenghu lake and claimed those crabs grew in it.Through this way, they can get 5 to 10 times profits than the crab grown in other lakes.

       In order to supply authentic crab and protect peasant's profit, local peasant association decides to utilize  technical method. In last year, every authentic crab was printed a particular tag on the back by laser to ensure that they are 100 per cent authentic. This year, they invented an other method: taking a special ring around crab's clamp. But this means did not work, seller can buy those kind of rings when they want to fake pure Yanchenghu crab.

       In the fact, crab grew in Yanchenghu have the same quality as crabs grown in other lake. For disturbed by fake, market share and sales quantity is not as good as last year. Crabs grown in Hongzhehu lake has replaced those who grew in Yanchenghu as the top quantity products.

 Admittedly, crab is very delicious but a little bit  expensive.