Variations: Shu-fish
The Shuyu or Shu-fish can be found in abundance in China’s Peng River. It looks like a chicken with red feathers, and has four heads (or four eyes), six feet, and three tails. It caws like a magpie. Eating it cures melancholy.
The red color, multiplicity of appendages, and the triple (three-lobed?) tail combine to suggest a crayfish or lobster.
References
Mathieu, R. (1983) Étude sur la mythologie et l’ethnologie de la Chine ancienne. Collège de France, Paris.
Strassberg, R. E. (2002) A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas. University of California Press.
A Book of Creatures 
But what does it taste like?
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Delicious
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Why are these monsters always so big?
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This one is lobster sized!
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Oh wait this one ain’t 🙂
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I can’t say if being served a freaky chicken lobster for dinner would CURE my depression, but it would certainly distract me for a few minutes.
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“It tastes like chicken” now has a whole new meaning.
I didn’t know what I was expecting when I saw 🦞
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A weird lobster that cures depression? I’ll take your entire stock! (Dear ABC, my the time you read this I will already have set out on my life-long quest in search of the shuyu. Thank you for everything.)
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Good luck!
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I would be sad if I ate that, not cured of it.
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Well- Yes?
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Awesome! Love the creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas!
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Same!
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Maybe its a normal lobster and the large pincers were misinterpreted as more heads.
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