How much does a live king crab cost per jin, and which is more expensive, it or the emperor crab?

Any crab lover knows that around the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar is the time to eat “June yellow” crabs, while hairy crabs must wait until after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The “king of crabs,” the king crab, comes in the ninth and tenth months.So roughly how much does a live king crab cost per jin? And which is more expensive compared with the emperor crab?

1. Roughly how much does a live king crab cost per jin?

1. Strictly speaking, the king crab is not a true crab. It is also called the Alaskan king crab, rock crab, Echizen crab, stone crab, cod-ground crab, or Kamchatka stone crab. It is a deep-sea crab species, huge in size and meat-eating.

2. King crabs come from only these regions: the Bering Strait, Norway's Barents Sea, Alaskan waters, and Chilean waters. On the Chinese market, live king crabs and raw-frozen ones basically all come from the Bering Sea in Russia and the US state of Alaska; cooked-frozen king crabs basically all come from Chile (after all, the shipping distance is a bit far), and Norwegian king crabs are currently not exported to China.

3. The price of live king crabs over 3 jin is 200 to 300 yuan per jin, and the cheapest ones sell for just over 100 yuan per jin. If you buy frozen king crab, it will be a bit cheaper.

4. Because king crabs are fairly large, their legs can also be sold separately, at around 200 yuan per jin.

2. Which is more expensive, king crab or emperor crab?

1. Although the king crab and the emperor crab are both fairly large crabs, they are not the same kind of crab, and even their origins are different. The emperor crab comes from Australia's Bass Strait, and the heaviest one reached 36 kilograms. It is also a skilled tree climber, making it arguably the heaviest crab in the world.

2. The price of emperor crab is over 300 yuan per jin, and live ones of good quality can sell for 600 to 700 yuan per jin, so the price of emperor crab is more expensive than that of king crab.

3. How do you handle and clean a live king crab?

1. Place the live crab you bought back into clean water and let it sit for a few hours so it can excrete on its own.

2. Prepare fresh clean water and use a toothbrush to scrub its shell, claws, and legs clean, especially the crab's fuzz, which must be scrubbed clean.

3. Soak it in cooking wine or baijiu for about half an hour, then put it in a pot and steam it until cooked.