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| Fishing boats unload their cargoes of fresh seafood at the wharf at Huangsha every morning. (China Daily/Pauline D. Loh) |
They are of all shapes and sizes, but they must all be swimming and alive, because here at Huangsha, a dead prawn is considered bargain basement goods.
Crab varieties are more dictated by season, although we see plenty of the Alaskan king crabs, just one of which would take up a whole display case.
And then I see something which stops me in my tracks - a whole basket of rare "yellow oil" crabs full of gleaming golden roe. These are actually normal mud crabs with an abnormal condition. In humans, we would describe it as having a fatty liver.
The roe-filled crabs are a particular delicacy and much prized in the kitchen where they are made drunk with a spoonful of liquor before they are cooked so they do not lose any of the precious roe if they should struggle in the steamer.
Huge lobsters, both the ones from the surrounding seas and the colorful blue lobsters from Australia are also available, and here, they are sold at wholesale prices that you cannot get anywhere else in the country.
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