Eating crabs

The Mid-Autumn Day is around the corner, it is a traditional festival in China.
Mid-Autumn is a harvest time, many much delicious food will come into season, including variety of friuts and aquatic products. Crabs are among them.

Today, one of my patients gave me several crabs for appreciation. The crabs are were bigger than normal ones, but I think it is they were still difficult to eat, I must uncover the lids to find the crab yellow, and dig out the meat from the hard claws. It's time-consuming. I spend spent an hour to eat eating two crabs.

Because I am from inland, it is hard to find crabs in my hometown, so I never eat them before I live in Shenyang, I am not so used to eat them. Every year, I just eat a few for fresh feeling.

It is said that people from Shanghai like eating crabs very much, and they have special equipments, which can help them digging out every piece of meat from every corner of the crab claws. I think it would be very funny to see Shanghainese eating crabs.

Eating crabs

The Mid-Autumn Day is around the corner, it is a traditional festival in China.
Mid-Autumn is a harvest time, many delicious food will come into season, including variety of friuts and aquatic products. Crabs are among them.

Today, one of my patients gave me several crabs for appreciation. The crabs are bigger than normal, but I think it is still difficult to eat, I must uncover the lids to find the crab yellow, and dig out the meat from the hard claws. It's time-consuming. I spend an hour to eat two crabs.

Because I am from inland, it is hard to find crabs in my hometown, so I never eat them before I live in Shenyang, I am not used to eat them. Every year, I just eat a few for fresh feeling.

It is said that people from Shanghai like eating crabs very much, and they have special equipments, which can help them digging out every piece of meat from every corner of the crab claws. I think it would be very funny to see Shanghainese eating crabs.

You already have a lot of good advice.  Here is another way of writing your exercise in colloquial language,

 The Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is just around the corner.  Mid-Autumn is harvest time and from the many harvested crops we get delicious food.  We get a variety of fruit and also seafood.  One of the seafood items is crabs.

 Today one of my patients brought me several crabs.  They’re bigger than average but still difficult to eat.  I have to crack open the shell to get at the meat and yellow fat and dig the meat out of the claws.  It’s time-consuming.  (It’s a lot of trouble)  It took me an hour to eat just two crabs.

 I’m not from the seacoast (I’m from an inland part of the country) so it’s hard to find crabs in my hometown.  I had never eaten then before I moved to Shenyang.  I’m not used to eating them.  Every year I eat a few just for a change.

 I hear that people from Shanghai really like eating crabs and have special implements to get out every piece of meat from the claws.  I think it would be a funny sight to watch the Shanghai people eating crabs.

 I wouldn’t say “many delicious food will come into season” because crops are harvested and the delicious food comes only after we cook it.

 I changed some of the wording to make it more natural.  If you have any questions about the changes, just ask me.

 “For a change” is a common idiom.

 BTW, since I live very near the Gulf of Mexico, some of our tastiest dishes are seafood dishes.  We eat crabs a lot, but I agree that getting to the meat is a tiresome process, so many of us prefer boiled crawfish. 

Eating Crabs

The Mid-Autumn Day Festival 1 is around the corner.   It is a traditional Chinese festival in China.2 and is also a time of harvest.  Mid-Autumn is a harvest time, Many delicious food will come into delicacies are in season, including variety of friuts fruits and aquatic products and seafood. Crabs are is 3 among them.

Today, one of my patients gave me several crabs for as an appreciation for my humble care. These crabs are bigger larger than normal, but I think it is still difficult to eat as I must uncover the lids to find the crab yellow, have to deshell them before I can get to the crab roe and dig out the meat from the hard claws. It's time-consuming. I spend spent an hour to eat just only two crabs.

Because As I am from inland, it is hard to find crabs in my hometown and , so I never eat them before I live in moving to Shenyang, I am not used to eating them. However, now I eat a few of them each just to get myself into eating them proficiently. 4 Every year, I just eat a few for fresh feeling.

It is said that people from Shanghainese like love eating crabs very much, and they have special tools equipments, which can to help them digging out every piece of all the crab meat out from every corner of the crab  its claws. I think it would be very funny to see Shanghainese eating crabs.

Cantonese love eating crabs too.  I especially love them (especially dungeoness crab) steamed in wine and egg white.  I prefer Cantonese style of eating because the chef had already cracked opened the claws for the diners.  So it is not so difficult.  Americans too love crabs but usually Alaskan King crabs which they have crackers to open the shell.  I hate eating American style Maryland crabs.  This is because the crabs are not cleaned first.  They are just cooked and the diner has to do all the work.  However eating crab bodies is an art.  I don't need special tools.  Just my two thumbs and second fingers.  My favourite part of the crab are their bodies and the underlayer just under the shell.  Very tasty but very high in cholesterol.  So I don't eat crab often :(

1.  If you are not referring to that special day, then you should say, "Mid autumn is just round the corner."

2.  When you are writing Chinese culture, remember that it is not only Mainland China has the bragging rights.  It is celebrated world wide where there are large Chinese populations.  In Los Angeles, I am going to attend a "dirty" limerick recitation dessert pool party!".  Therefore it is better to write this way unless it is uniquely found only in China.

3.  Now this is a cultural issue here.  For Americans (yes, again the troublemakers!), "crabs" is slang for "pubic lice"!  Therefore the innocent saying "I have crabs" meaning "to eat crabs" have a total meaning in American daily English.  This means you are infested with pubic lice.  Because of the widespread of American English, it is better to use the singular term instead.  In Cantonese, "crab" is also used as slang for the female region!

4.  I am guessing here.  There are so many interpretations.  Write in Chinese if you wanted an accurate correction. 

The Mid-Autumn Day is around the corner. It is a traditional festival in China. Mid-Autumn is a harvest time. Many delicious foods will come into season, including a variety of friuts and aquatic delicacies ("products" is correct, but we don't usually use that word for food). Crabs are among them. 

Today, one of my patients gave me several crabs out of appreciation. The crabs are bigger than normal, but I think they are still difficult to eat. I must uncover the shells ("lids" is okay, but we usually say "crab shells") to find the crab yellow and dig out the meat from the hard claws. It's time consuming. I spend an hour eating two crabs.

Because I am from inland, so it is hard to find crabs in my hometown. I never ate them before I lived in Shenyang. I am not used to eating them. Every year, I just eat a few for a fresh feeling.

It is said that people from Shanghai like eating crabs very much, and they have special equipments which can help them digging out every piece of meat from every corner of the crab claws. I think it would be very funny to see Shanghainese eating crabs.

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