The blue-shelled hairy crabs were placed in a steamer and turned a reddish-orange color after steaming.
After steaming, the real skill begins: removing the crab meat!
They need to be cut up, but you don't need any special crab-eating tools; just a small pair of scissors and a rolling pin will suffice.
Crabs have eight legs; first, you have to break off all eight legs and then open their belly button.
There are many parts of a crab that are inedible and must be thoroughly cleaned first.
Remove crab gills: Crabs spend most of their time in water and breathe mainly by filtering impurities from the water through their gills. Therefore, crab gills contain a lot of impurities from the water. If accidentally ingested, they may irritate the gastrointestinal tract and cause obvious symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Next, remove the crab's stomach and intestines: Crabs mainly supply their metabolism by consuming decaying matter, so their stomachs accumulate too much putrefied matter and contain a lot of bacteria.
If ingested accidentally, bacteria can enter the human gastrointestinal tract and potentially trigger acute gastroenteritis!
It can cause symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting in humans. The crab's intestines contain digested food and are essentially the crab's excrement.
Crab heart!
This is difficult for many laymen to find!
This is a small, fingernail-sized white substance on the crab roe, which is easily mistaken for crab roe and eaten.
Crab heart is relatively cold in nature, so it can be quite irritating to the gastrointestinal tract, easily causing diarrhea, and may even have adverse effects on pregnant women.
Crab roe is the most precious and delicious ingredient. There is a lot of crab roe inside the crab shell. Han Fei took out the crab roe and put it in a large glass bowl.
Next, the crab meat is processed. The meat on the body is relatively easy to handle. Han Fei cut the crab body in half horizontally, and used the tip of the scissors to remove the crab meat from the shell. He then placed it in another glass bowl, separating it from the crab roe.
The crab's legs are the most difficult part to handle. First, you need to trim off each joint, leaving only the main body.
You can use scissors to cut the legs one by one and remove the leg meat in one piece, but this is only suitable for a small number of crabs that need to be processed.
If you want to quickly process a large pile of crab legs, you'll need a rolling pin!
Han Li saw Han Fei gently press and roll with a rolling pin, and the leg meat flew out on its own. "Brother Han, let me try this!"
Han Fei was also a little tired; dismantling a large pile of crabs was a very tiring task.
Since someone was interested in playing, why not? Like throwing away a hot potato, Han Fei handed the rolling pin to Han Li: "Do a good job!"
Han Li got a sudden urge and started playing, having a blast.
But gradually, he felt his hands getting sore. He looked at the small pile of processed crab leg shells in front of him, then turned to look at the other side, where there were several times more crab legs that had not yet been processed. He silently put down the rolling pin: "Brother Han, I think the meat buns are fine. We don't need to be innovative."
Han Fei, who was resting nearby, couldn't help but burst into laughter.
He was just wondering: how long can this younger brother last? Ten minutes? Twenty minutes?
As it turned out, he did manage to hold on for 30 minutes.
"This is indeed a very labor-intensive task, but it is also a good thing."
"A good thing?" Han Li was very puzzled. It seemed that all the difficult things could be seen from a different perspective in the eyes of his older brother Han.
"Han Li, I know that foreign countries have been trying to replace human labor with machines, but this has left many people with no choice. Not everyone in this world is outstanding; some are born behind."
"Brother Han, are you referring to people with disabilities?"
"Yes, the scale of fruit candy production has not yet expanded, and the number of disabled people it can help is limited. But this seemingly tedious task, which may make you impatient and lacking in energy, is a job and skill that they cherish."
"But this is too tiring. Maybe we can invest some money to develop a machine for dismantling crabs."
"Hanli, for them, this is already the best option. If there were machines that could quickly dismantle crabs, they would lose another job they could choose to do."
“Brother Han, I don’t quite understand you. You can donate money, which will help them in the same way.”
"Donate money?" Han Fei smiled bitterly. "I don't know how much will actually reach them. And I don't know if they're willing to be people who ask society and the country for money. Maybe some have given up on themselves and prefer to just coast along, but others might have different ideas. All I can do is give them more options. For example, there are jobs making fruit candy or dismantling crabs. I can offer these jobs to disabled people in society. Whether they come or not, whether they're willing to do them or not, is their own choice. Whether they prefer making fruit candy or dismantling crabs is also their own choice."
“Choice…” Han Li murmured, “Brother Han, maybe I understand you a little now.”
Choice—a seemingly simple word, yet it is different for everyone.
People born into privilege have many choices from birth. They can choose art, and even if they don't make money from it, they have the support of a wealthy family.
People from ordinary families can also choose art, but they must use art to create wealth, so art becomes less pure and will be criticized.
But for people from very poor families, after considering all these things—what is art, can art put food on the table, how much does art cost in tuition—they won't even consider art, removing it from their options. Art simply isn't an option for them in life.
People with disabilities have far fewer choices than able-bodied people; the options they can make are far too few.
He suddenly felt that Brother Han was great. Unlike some philanthropists who set up foundations or donate money in a grand manner, he could actually help very few people.
Those people may need societal support more than money.
Brother Han created opportunities for them to be needed.
“Brother Han, you’re different from those big-time businessmen. You’re the most unique businessman I’ve ever met. I really enjoy doing business with you. When I was a kid, my family always told me that you have to be ruthless in business, or else others will be ruthless to you! Later, I witnessed my family’s ruthlessness firsthand. When I died, no one even came to collect my body.”
Han Fei patted Han Li on the shoulder: "They are only looking at things from one perspective, which is wrong. There are many ways to make money in business."
"Han Li, if you're going to make money with your brain, you need to learn to be flexible."
"If you're making money by employing people, you need to learn to be open-minded, know how to share profits with others, and know how to delegate authority."
"If you're making money through relationships, you need to be tactful and have high emotional intelligence."
"If you're making money with money, then you definitely need to be ruthless, absolutely ruthless! You can't be too kind, otherwise you'll be bullied until there's not even a bone left, and in the end, all the money will end up in someone else's pocket!"
Han Li was surprised: "No one has ever said these things to me before."
“We are now making money through food, but these foods are not our original creations. They are passed down from our ancestors. I am enjoying the benefits of my ancestors. It is only right that we should give back to the people what we have taken from them. I also want to do something to repay the country and society.”
Han Fei joked, "Perhaps one of the disabled people we help is the ancestor of the inventor of meat buns, crab roe buns, and other delicacies? I'll consider this a way of repaying his descendants for all of this!"
"Brother Han's vision is truly extraordinary. I feel that following you, I can go very far, and I can honestly say I won't feel any pain."
"Did you feel pain before?"
“Working for the family inevitably involves…” Han Li sighed, “If you get injured on the job, we can deny it, we basically deny it, unless there’s evidence. That’s probably why I later left the family and wanted to go solo.”
Han Fei sighed: "It's all in the past. You are now my younger brother. We, the Han family, only ask to have a clear conscience and to live a life that is neither unworthy of ourselves nor others."
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