On the weekends, they'd drive up here with their families and cash to have fun and savor hairy crabs.
Cut the hairy crabs into halves and then coat the cut end with flour so that when you are cooking none of the meet or roe will fall out.
We went for some swimming crabs first, two for each, then we bought some hairy crabs and then two different shellfishes.
Or what about the tea-flavored dishes from Hangzhou, the cult-inspiring hairy crabs of Shanghai or the fabled honeyed ham from Yunnan?
The market in counterfeit Yangcheng hairy crabs is 10 times the market in real ones, according to the Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab Association.
In Shanghai's Tongchuan Seafood market, Yangcheng hairy crabs are sold from giant fish tanks, but even the vendors admit many are counterfeit or only recently acquainted with Yangcheng Lake.
Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs derive their name from the mossy, brown hair that hangs from their claws.
A straw is thrown into the street, that is, garbage, tied together with cabbage is the price of Chinese cabbage. If it is tied to hairy crabs, it is the price of hairy crabs.
A few days later I discovered yet another new seafood gift marketing scheme involving those seasonal freshwater delicacies from lakes and rivers near Shanghai: hairy crabs.
People think these are Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, but we know they aren't.
Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, also known as claws.