Luoma Lake Crabs

Luoma Lake Crabs

　　Luoma Lake crabs are a specialty of Luoma Lake in Xinyi City, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. These crabs are notably large, with males boasting fat as white as jade and females with fat as golden as yellow—a truly rare and delicious delicacy.

　　Luoma Lake is one of the better-preserved inland lakes in terms of its ecosystem, featuring an excellent environment and pristine water quality, along with abundant natural food sources such as aquatic plants and benthic animals—making it an ideal habitat for crabs. The crabs are raised using extensive farming methods without any artificial feed or chemicals, subsisting on natural food such as aquatic plants and snails. As pollution-free green seafood, they are highly favored by consumers.

　　Caqiao Town in Xinyi City is located close to Luoma Lake and has over 20,000 acres dedicated to both lake-based crab farming and rice-field aquaculture, making it a demonstration base for crab farming in northern Jiangsu.