Autumn is the best season for the Chinese people to savor the delicacy of the hairy crabs. The celebrated Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs will be put up for sale on the market in large quantities next month.
The female crabs have finished with their last shucking while the male ones will need one or two additional shucking before they can be harvested.
The hairy crabs will be of the same size from a year ago with their weight averaging 20 grams each and 30 grams for some bigger ones.
The prices of the hairy crabs will be dependent on the harvest beginning on September 23, insiders say. The
Hairy crabs, also known as Dazha crab or Chinese mitten crab, are so named because their front claws have a thick mass of hair. While the crabs are considered the main delicacy of a meal, they usually do not appear in a traditional Chinese meal until the very end, but before the watermelon.
The most famous hairy crabs come from Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou. These crabs are considered to have the very best flesh and roe.
