Shanghainese Hairy Crab

I went to Dragon-i Restaurant in Queensbay Mall last weekend with my parents. My mom read about the Shanghainese hairy crab set promotion in news paper and she would like to try the famous delicacies from southern China.
The promotion is for dinner only, RM98 per pax (min. 3 person, or else RM128 per pax), with 1 steamed meal Shanghainese hairy crab(200g), 1 steamed Shanghainese crab roe dumpling, double-boiled chicken soup with fish maw and bamboo pith, salteed fresh vegetable with crab roe, Yong Chow fried rice and a bowl of sesame dumpling with ginger soup. The set is too large for us per person, so we order 3 steamed Shanghainese hairy crab for each of us (RM48 each, not cheap too!), with some shanghainese steamed meat dumpling (xiao long pao), steamed vegetable, fried rice, la mian... ect..

Eating Shanghainese hairy crab is very interesting, they provide some tablewares for us, a small scisors and a tiny folk. Ladies would like it very much, as we can eat crab in very elegance and polite way. The crab shell is softer compare to local crab, that's why we can use scisors to cut it, instead of using hammer to break it. I am not the expert in crab, but one thing I can comment about the taste, the crab paste is really great! Greater than local crab paste! If you like crab paste, you must give this a try. It would not disapoint you.

But one thing to be very careful about eating this Shanghainese hairy crab , do not eat with empty stomach and remember to drink ginger tea after taking it. I had a very bad experience about this. I should write this blog a week ago, but my stomach seriously bulging with air whole night after the meal. I loss of my appetite everytime I think of crab. LOL! Until now only I dare to upload the photos.