蟹粉 (xièfěn) · picked crab meat and roe, crab meat filling

Meanings

1 picked crab meat and roe
2 crab meat filling

About the ingredient

水产 Fish and seafood

Meat and roe picked from hairy crabs and usually cooked down with lard, an autumn treat of Shanghai and eastern China. It is stirred into tofu and used to fill soup dumplings.

Contains shellfish

Characters

fine flakes (here of crab meat)

Examples

HSK 6

拆蟹粉很费工夫，所以用蟹粉做的菜都不便宜。

Chāi xièfěn hěn fèi gōngfu, suǒyǐ yòng xièfěn zuò de cài dōu bù piányi.

Picking crab meat takes a lot of work, so dishes made with it are never cheap.

HSK 7-9

蟹粉是用蟹肉和蟹黄炒成的。

Xièfěn shì yòng xièròu hé xièhuáng chǎochéng de.

Crab meat filling is made by frying crab meat and crab roe together.

Tips

usage

Despite the 粉, 蟹粉 is not a powder: it is the meat and roe picked from hairy crabs, 大闸蟹, and fried with ginger. Shanghai and Suzhou restaurants serve it in autumn, the crab season, in dishes like 蟹粉小笼.