What's cooking up in Zhuhai

I always find it intriguing to know how my friends live in all those countries across the oceans. Likewise, I think, it would be thrilling for y'all to know how your old pal Sergio is scraping through in the south of China. Here I am gonna take you on an exhilarating ride through the culinary adventures of my today's evening.

We made up our minds to cook crabs. In the supermarket the stand with live sea critters was a bit to the side, with not a lot of people milling around, so we decided to give it a try and buy the three most vicious reps of the claw-wielding crustaceans. One finger was bitten, a piece of paper clawed to rags, but the first round ended up in our unequivocal victory and with the score of one-to-nil the crabs traveled across town to our apartment.

It was the first time we cooked crabs...

First we washed them with a brush,
checked for primary gender characters
(BTW, can you guess who is the boy and who is the girl in the picture above?)

and, the match ended with the smashing victory of the cooks, who steamed the three crabsketeers in a pot over a secret crafty potion of water and beer (to add beer was my ingenious pioneering invention). If you are interested, the crabs are to be steamed for half an hour with ginger and then served with a sauce of your liking.
Here it is, our blushed sea food.