The Original Long Beach Lobster Festival 2018

From The Original Long Beach Lobster Festival 2018 Website:

The Original Lobster Festival prepares fresh, live Maine lobsters in the worlds largest cooker, which steams up to a thousand pounds of lobster at a timeso theres plenty to go around! Maine lobsters have a certain sweetness and tenderness to them, compared to their Canadian counterparts, due to the warmer waters in which they reside. Theyre some of the best-tasting lobsters around and are world famous for that reason.

The Hassett Family (O Entertainment Inc.) has been putting on this annual festival for decades, so they knows a thing or two when it comes to eating lobsters. If you ask these professionals, steaming is the best way to prepare lobster. While boiling might be the easiest way to cook lobster, the gentle process of steaming preserves more flavor and tenderness than boiling. Lobsters are also less likely to be overcooked when theyre steamed, so youre almost guaranteed perfection!