By Herman Lai, posted Oct 22, 2010 at 7:00 AM, 1,039 views,

Crab Vending Machine Turns Up In China Subway Station (with video!)

We can have delicious dish of crabs in restaurant, but now you have to know that crabs can be bought through a vending machine. You might already come up with an issue straight away, is the crab fresh? The company claimed those crabs are kept in the machine at 5-10 degrees Celsius, just to make sure the crabs are in a state of hibernation. Moreover, they will have staffs to check on those machine 3-4 times each day. If there’s any bad crabs were bought by people, they can ring up the company for compensation. The most funny thing is these crabs are guaranteed for freshness, and a sign on the machine states that if your crab is dead, you get three free ones for your trouble.

This idea is from a company in Nanjing, the machine installed at the subway station of Nanjing on the 1st of October in order to experiment the public reaction to it. The public claimed they still can’t accept this new idea, along with time, some people are buying because of curious mind.

Those crabs are all from Gaochun, China, the prices are ranging in between $10 – $50 RMB (about $1.50 to $7) for each, they are all in individual package. The crab vending machine has no difference to the other vending machine, working under the same principle.

If the hairy crab vending machine is going well in Nanjing, it will spread to other cities in China potentially.

Source: Tianjinwe, JapanProbe via Shanghaiist