She-crab soup The soup is named for the "She-Crab", or female crab, originally a gravid crab, as the orange crab roe comprise a chief ingredient in traditional she-crab soup. As with turtle soup, other ingredients may be added to the soup or substituted for others, although crabmeat is found in all versions. She-crab soup She-crab soup is a rich soup, similar to bisque, made of milk or heavy cream, crab or fish stock, Atlantic blue crab meat, and (traditionally) crab roe, and a small amount of dry sherry added as it is plated. It may be thickened either by heat reduction or
Red king crab Red king crab The red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, also called Kamchatka crab or Alaskan king crab, is a species of king crab native to the Bering Sea. It grows to a leg span of , and is heavily targeted by fisheries. The red king crab is the largest species of king crab. Red king crabs can reach a carapace width of up to , a leg span of , and a weight of . Males grow larger than females. Today red king crabs infrequently surpass in carapace width and the average male landed in the Bering Sea weighs .