Ke Gani

I can never forget my 1st taste of hairy crabs in Shanghai. I thought hairy crabs were like the normal crabs we have here, except that it’s h-a-i-r-y. haha.

But it’s not that simple. The essence of hairy crab lies behind its shell – the whole lot of golden roe! It was marvellous~

Now, under the chef’s recommendation, we decided to try out the Japanese Hairy Crab:

Looks kinda scary and huge, nothing like the normal hairy crabs.
But smaller than Taraban Gani.

Chef preparing the hairy crab.

Similar to the Taraban Gani, it was partially served as sashimi:

We had it in soup as well. And then, the main course came:

This is what i mean by the “essence”:

ho-ho-ho! See the roe? *slurps*

Tags: all jap, foodilicious