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Princess Lejia happily ate the hand-washing crab, her eyebrows curved slightly: "Zhengzheng, this hand-washing crab is really delicious. This is the first time I eat it raw."

The hand-washing crab tastes icy cold when you put it in your mouth. It has no fishy smell, is sweet and delicious, and has a tender texture with a very refreshing crab roe flavor.

The raw crab meat has a rare sweetness, and a hint of sweetness. If you taste it carefully, you will find the sweetness of the crab meat with the salty fragrance of the sauce and the fragrance of plums.

Once you take a bite, you can't stop.

Zhou Ying also added: "When I first heard the name of the hand-washing crab, I was confused for a moment. I was wondering how crabs were related to washing hands. Who would have thought that this hand-washing crab was actually pickled raw."

She had never eaten raw food before, let alone raw crab.

Although she was a little reluctant, Zhou Ying couldn't help but try it when she saw the crystal clear crab meat and bright red crab roe.

As soon as Zhou Ying took a bite of the crab meat, she was amazed.

Although the hand-wash crab is raw, it does not stick to the shell and does not have any fishy taste. With a gentle suck, the crab meat will slip out of the shell and into your mouth, and your mouth will be immediately filled with sweetness.

The sweet and sour taste of the plums perfectly brings out the deliciousness of the crabs. It is a delicacy that touches the soul.

"By the way, Zheng'er," Zhou Ying asked, "Why is this dish called Hand-washing Crab?"

"Yeah, why is it such a strange name?"

Princess Lejia also looked up at Shen Huazheng. She also wanted to know the answer.

Shen Huazheng swallowed the crab meat in her mouth and drank a sip of ginger tea. "Because the time from pickling to serving is very short, it's just a matter of washing your hands."

Wash your hands crab is to freeze the washed crab, then take it out and chop it open with a machete.

Each piece of crab must have the crab body, crab legs, crab roe and crab meat.

Soak the chopped crab pieces in the marinade made with various seasonings. Wait until the crab pieces melt and become soft, then you can serve them.

Pickled crabs are different from drunken crabs in that the first requirement is not the flavor, but the speed. Once the pickling time is too long and too much salt is used, the crab meat will become tough and even difficult to eat.

There is a saying that the process of pickling and eating hand-washing crabs only requires washing hands, so they are called "hand-washing crabs".

"I see."

"That's quite fitting indeed."

Zhou Ying and Princess Le Jia suddenly realized what was going on and continued to eat.

Seeing that Shen Huazheng and the other two were enjoying their meal, Princess Yi'an scolded them, "Don't eat too much raw food, kids. It's not good for your health."

Madam Zhou also nodded in agreement: "That's right, you are still young, don't be greedy and eat too many raw crabs, just eat a few to taste it."

Zhou smiled and said, "Hurry up and drink some ginger tea to drive away the cold, so that you won't have a stomachache."

After all, crabs are cold in nature, so Zhou specially asked someone to cook chrysanthemum ginger tea and wine with ginger.

Princess Lejia and Zhou Ying had not yet eaten enough, but they did not dare to disobey their elders, so they put down their chopsticks and drank ginger tea from their cups.

Shen Huazheng finished her ginger tea and took the tools to concentrate on peeling the crab. She used crab scissors to cut the crab legs and two large claws, and then removed the crab stomach, crab heart, crab gills, crab intestines and other internal organs one by one.

The nobles of Daliang also used eight crab utensils when eating crabs: a small square table, an original waist hammer, a long-handled axe, a long-handled fork, round-headed scissors, tweezers, a chisel, and a small spoon, which are basically the same as modern crab-eating utensils.

Shen Huazheng peeled off the crab shell, then scooped up the crab roe from the shell with a small spoon and put it into her mouth.

The crab roe has a fresh, salty, delicate and smooth taste that spreads between the lips and tongue, which is absolutely wonderful.