Luannan sea crab

Luannan sea crab is a specialty of Luannan County, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. "Luannan sea crab", also known as yellow crab, is tender, yellow and fat, delicious, and has medicinal effects such as nourishing tendons and benefiting qi, regulating stomach and promoting digestion, dispersing heat and dredging meridians. "Luannan sea crab" is also a yellow crab, which grows in shallow water, spawns locally and naturally hatches locally. The sea crab is a limb animal, with huge claws and sharp nails, which are blue and crawl sideways. Its meat is tender, yellow and fat, delicious, and has medicinal effects such as nourishing tendons and benefiting qi, regulating stomach and promoting digestion, dissipating heat and dredging meridians. Moreover, it is rich in nutrition. Every 100 grams of crab meat can contain 14 grams of protein, 2.5-5.6 grams of fat and 7.4 grams of carbohydrates. It is also rich in various vitamins and trace elements such as phosphorus, calcium and iron, which has always been popular with people and appreciated by those literati. Therefore, predecessors once wrote such a poem about crabs: "You are well-known before you swim in the sea, but you have bones and are born from meat;" Mo Dao is not afraid of lightning, and the sea dragon king is also rampant. " "Luannan Sea Crab" is produced in Liuzan and Nanbao along the southern coast of Luannan County. It has a history of four or five hundred years and is one of the famous products in Luannan. In spring, from Grain Rain to Xiaoman, and in autumn, from Bailu to first frost, fishermen use nets, trawls and shelf nets to catch fish, and often get high yield. The meat of "Luannan Sea Crab" is delicious and delicious. Nowadays, there are many ways to eat it. It can be steamed, boiled, braised, fried, dried in the sun, made into crab meat, crab roe, and processed into crab sauce. In the spring season, when the buds of Toona sinensis appear, and the peony first blooms, the sea crab can be eaten with the buds of Toona sinensis, and its taste is beautiful. If it is accompanied by wine and flowers, the elegance will be stronger. Therefore, there is a poem "Huangning is white and tender, Toona sinensis is crisp, and peony at the window is mixed with wine". In autumn, chrysanthemums are in full bloom, so there is a saying that "enjoy chrysanthemums and eat crabs, and chrysanthemums and yellow crabs are fat".
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