Food: Starting with Wonton Noodles

"Wow, so cute! Uncle, look! Doesn't it look just like Mr. Krabs!"

Huihui saw the little crab wiping the sand from its eyes and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Zhou Yu joked, "She is indeed very cute. Huihui, do you know that the crab boss is also delicious!"

Huihui quickly withdrew her hand, which had been extended in front of Zhou Yu.

She said, "This is my new friend, I can't eat him! I'm going to keep him as a pet."

Hearing this, Zhou Meiying couldn't help but complain, "You're raising more things? Just think about how many you've raised. How many times have you made the house dirty with all those random things you keep?"

Huihui immediately pounced on Cao Xuezhen and said in a spoiled tone, "Grandma, Mom is bullying your precious granddaughter. She won't let me raise the little crabs. Please help me beat her up."

Cao Xuezhen said sternly, "You are your mother's darling, not mine. Your mother is my darling. If you misbehave and make her angry, I will hit you."

Cao Xuezhen was naturally reluctant to hit Huihui, but Huihui had raised far too many strange and unusual things.

Sometimes when they come to stay with Cao Xuezhen, they bring their children along.

Like Zhou Meiying, she was also extremely annoyed by the pets that Huihui kept.

Huihui had no choice but to pounce on Zhou Weiqiang again.

Zhou Weiqiang coaxed him, saying repeatedly, "Okay, okay, if your mom won't let you raise them, you can take them to Grandpa's, and Grandpa will raise them for you. Grandpa and you can go catch some little crabs later, okay?"

Cao Xuezhen scolded, "Zhou Weiqiang, let me tell you, if you keep bringing back these random things for her to raise, you'll be responsible for all the house cleaning from now on. Do you know that if her little crabs escape, you won't know where they'll go? If they die in a corner, the whole house will stink, and you'll be the one cleaning it?"

Zhou Meiying added, "Dad, you have no idea what your adorable granddaughter has been up to. The other day she even started raising caterpillars! Caterpillars! Is that something a normal little girl would raise?"

Huihui couldn't help but interject, "Dad said that's not a caterpillar, it's a silkworm, it spins silk."

Zhou Meiying angrily slapped her again and said, "Silkworm my ass, it's just some kind of moth larva. I wouldn't be angry if you didn't mention your father."

As she spoke, she vented her anger on Wu Hongyu: "Do you know what she did? You insisted on raising caterpillars for your precious daughter. She even took them out to play and scared a college girl to tears."

When Wu Hongyu saw the fire spreading to himself, the cake in his hand immediately lost its appeal.

He really wanted to say, "Even though I agreed, you couldn't stand her crying and fussing either."

With so many people around, he had no choice but to maintain the same awkward smile as Zhou Weiqiang.

Then Zhou Meiying and her daughter took turns criticizing and condemning their husbands' behavior of spoiling their daughter (Sun).

Linlin, who was already used to this, became concerned about another issue.

He asked Zhou Yu, "Uncle, are these little crabs really delicious? They're so small, how can we eat them?"

It seems my little nephew is still a foodie at heart; he even wants to eat the crab vendor.

Zhou Yu explained, "This is called a sand crab. When you went to catch it just now, wasn't it running very fast?"

"Yes! It runs like it can fly; I can't keep up with it."

"So, because it runs incredibly fast on the beach, like a horse, it's called a sand crab. And the meat of the sand crab is indeed very sweet and tender, it's delicious."

The sand crab is a very famous small crab along the Lingnan coast. Although it is very small, the largest sand crab is not much bigger than a coin.

However, if we only consider sweetness, the sand crab can rank among the top two in the crab rankings.

Just look at the price to know that, given its matchbox-sized size, local restaurants buy them for 3-5 yuan each, and there are only about 20-30 per jin (500g).

And it's the kind of product where demand exceeds supply.

Zhou Yu continued to explain, "However, you can't eat this kind; you need another kind."

Hearing Zhou Yu say that the kind of fish he caught couldn't be eaten, Huihui also crawled out of Zhou Weiqiang's arms.

She asked curiously, "Uncle, which one is edible?"

She loves eating crabs, as long as it's not the little crab she caught.

"It's another type of sand crab."

Zhou Yu began to explain to the two little ones.

There are two types of sand crabs along the coast of Lingnan.

One type is the one Huihui caught. It is mostly yellowish-yellow in color, and its eyes are like two round black rice grains. It is very cute. Its scientific name is *Scutellaria baicalensis*.

Another type has a grayish body color and an extra sharp corner at the corner of its eye, resembling two small knives, giving it a more imposing and domineering appearance. Therefore, its scientific name is the horned-eyed sand crab, and locals also call it Guan Dao Ma.

Because his eyes not only resemble Guan Yu's phoenix eyes, but also Guan Yu's halberd.

Although both species generally live together on beaches, their habitats are somewhat different.

Guan Dao Ma prefers a slightly humid environment, so he mainly inhabits the intertidal zone (the area that is submerged by the tide) on the beach.

The sand crab, on the other hand, mostly inhabits the drier woodlands near the beach and the sandy shores where saddle vines grow.

Although it was still a cloudy day with thick clouds, Zhou Meiying only allowed Huihui and Linlin to play under the shade of the trees in the woods.

What the two could catch was naturally the cuter sand crab.

"Actually, the little crab in your hand has another name," Zhou Yu teased Huihui again.

Huihui, unaware of the impending danger, asked naively:

"What is it? Does this adorable little crab have an even cuter name?"

Ever since Zhou Yu said that this kind of crab was inedible, she has loved it even more.

Zhou Yu laughed and said, "Actually, we only call the other kind of sand crab a sand crab. The inedible one is usually called a 'shit crab' because legend has it that it only likes to eat poop."

Huihui, who had been playing with the crab in her hand, was so frightened that she immediately threw it away.

But then he immediately thought that Zhou Yu might be lying to him, so he picked it up again, but he didn't dare to hold it anymore and had to put it back into the bucket.

She pouted and said, "I know, Uncle, you're lying to me again. It really does eat poop. Why didn't Mom stop me from catching it?"

At that moment, she suddenly became clever again.

Zhou Meiying also asked in surprise, "Huh? Isn't this a samar?"

Sand crabs are extremely delicious, so locals especially love to eat them, but they are becoming increasingly rare, so Zhou Meiying really can't identify them.

Zhou Yu nodded: "Yes, this is a dung horse, not a sand horse. Huihui, if you don't believe me, you can ask your father."

Huihui looked at Wu Hongyu with hope, but when she saw that Wu Hongyu also looked at her with agreement, her face immediately fell.

Zhou Yu laughed and said, "Alright, I'm not teasing you anymore. I told you, it's just a legend. Actually, it's called Shit Horse because it can't eat, not because it actually eats poop. There aren't that many poops on the beach for them to eat."