Blue crab

You can buy them from China town in Toronto with the cheapest price $4 -5 CAD per pound. They are much smaller and less meaty than the Vancouver crab. But when they are in season, just for the orange crab roe, it worthy fighting over with other Chinese grandma to pick the bigger crab.

Those little guys are quite feisty. Be careful don’t let their claw catch your finger when washing them. Like once they did to me, I can only steam it to death to release my finger. From then on, I use a cooking thong. ☺

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_crab

I normally steam them with ginger or lemon for 12 mins after water is boiling. Sometimes just eat like that, or sometimes with sauce: vinegar, grated fresh ginger and sugar (Shanghai style).