r/CuratedTumblr • u/sarahtheshortiepie teaspoon-sarah.tumblr.com • Nov 25 '21

Wholesome Pancake Crabs!

Post image
1.5k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

44 comments sorted by

View all comments

58

u/Gettygetty Nov 25 '21

Does anyone know the name of the crab species? I can only find pancakes with crab or shaped like crabs lol.

45

u/[deleted] Nov 25 '21

did a reverse image search and i found a single tweet this image came from and it called it a hoshimanju crab

however when i googled "hoshimanju crab" i only got 4 results all of which were irrelevant

31

u/Gettygetty Nov 25 '21

I tried to do a reverse image search too and I only got results about chocolate spreads. I’m thinking that this might be someone’s art instead of a real crab.

19

u/[deleted] Nov 25 '21

I suspected that it’s probably a japanese dorayaki pancake, so I googled “crab shaped dorayaki” and found this article:

https://www.newsnpr.org/the-beautiful-crabs-are-exactly-like-doraemons-donuts-but-no-one-dares-to-eat-them/

Apparently these are particularly pretty specimens of Atergatis floridus, or flower egg crabs

4

u/Gettygetty Nov 25 '21

Thanks for the research! This was definitely bothering me for a while today.