There's no competition—hands down, steaming is the superior way to cook this epicurean delight. Crab legs are generally sold pre-cooked and flash-frozen. Steaming is the preferred cooking method ...

But when we got a phone call mid-week, it meant one thing: she’d found reasonably priced Dungeness crabs, and she’d be steaming them ... difficult to crack the legs, and it’s hard to pull ...

The most popular dish at The Chairman is the steamed flowery crab with aged Shaoxing wine and rice noodles, but the restaurant’s regular customers also love the steamed sticky rice with crabmeat ...