The Peninsula Shanghai has launched a special six-course lunch menu priced at 188 yuan ($30) and an eight-course dinner menu priced at 680 yuan during the crab season at Yilong Restaurant. For those who want nothing but the whole crab, go for the dinner, which serves crabs that weighs no less than 225 grams each. The meal also includes Shanghai's famous pork and vegetable dumpling, but served with a hairy crab and Chinese black truffle sauce. Crabs available till the end of December.

Yilong Restaurant, Peninsula Shanghai, 32, Zhongshan Dongyilu, Huangpu district. 021-2327-2888