Ha! This blog just made through its 1st anniversary! Joyeux Anniversaire! Tanti Augari a me! To celebrate, allow me to present you the "fishiest" project this blog has endeavoured so far: a bilingual menu of the most commonly-seen fishes in Hong Kong. By translating the names of these fishes into English -- 80 in total (you know how superstitious I am, I did try to reach the lucky 88 but can't come up with the other 8 no matter how hard I tried), I hope life can be easier for those of you who can't read Chinese next time you are dining in a Chinese restaurant that doesn't have a English menu. No more befuddlement, right? A printer friendly PDF version can be found here: Whole Lotta Fish. Bon Appetite!
This is just a start. More posts will come along in the "Eat My Lingo" category. Take that as an attempt to patch up the pieces getting lost in translation. In that, I wish you all can understand our food and eating culture better.
No. Chinese Name English Name
1 䱽魚 Promfret
2 𩶘魚 Seabream
3 鰂魚/福壽魚 Tilapia
4 生魚 Snake Head
5 杉斑 Flowery/Camouflage Grouper
6 牙衣 Azure Tuskfish
7 山斑魚 Small Snakehead
8 老虎斑 Brown Marbled Grouper
9 青衣 Fall Parrotfish/Green Wrasse
10 彩眉 Trilobed Maori Wrasse
11 東星斑 Leopard Coral Grouper
12 西星斑 Areolated Coral Grouper
13 鯿魚 Bream
14 荀殼魚 Marble Goby/Painted Lizardfish
15 多寶魚 Turbot
16 黃花魚 Yellow Croaker
17 牛鰍魚 Flat Head
18 連尖 Emperor Fish
19 白帶魚 White Beltfish
20 馬友 Thread Fin
21 雞魚 Chicken Grunt
22 秋多魚 Smelt/Shashimo
23 銀魚仔 Whitbait/Young Herring
24 疏/梭羅 Cardinal Fish
25 大眼雞/木綿魚 Big Eye
26 紅衫 Golden Thread
27 桂花魚 Freshwater Grouper
28 龍躉 Giant Grouper
29 海紅斑 Hong Kong Grouper
30 魔鬼魚 Sting Ray
31 䱛魚 Croaker
32 白鱔 Eel
33 芝麻斑 Brown-spotted Grouper
34 金古 Spotted Silver Scat
35 鯇魚 Grass Carp
36 紅鮋 Mangrove Snapper
37 鱅魚/大魚 Bighead/Black Silver Carp
38 鬼頭斑 Black Saddle Grouper
39 馬鮫魚 Mackerel
40 石頭魚 Stonefish
41 方脷 Petrol Sole
42 獅子魚 Zebra Lionfish
43 沙鑽 Sand Borer
44 泥鯭 Rabbit Fish
45 塘虱魚 Catfish
46 石蚌 Star Snapper
47 深水泥鯭 Deepwater Rabbit Fish
48 九肚魚 Bombay Duck
49 花鱸 Spotted Bass
50 沙鯭 File Fish
51 章雄 Greater Amber Jack
52 大魚仔 Giant Trevally
53 青斑 Green Grouper
54 細鱗 Crown Sweetlip
55 青筋/馬頭 Horse Head
56 鱭魚 Mullet
57 油𩶘 Ponyfish
58 三鬚 Goatfish
59 瓜子斑 Speckled Blue Grouper
60 黃衣 Blue-barred Orange Parrotfish
61 油斑 Longtooth Grouper
62 紅魚 Humpback Red Snapper
63 龍脷 Sole
64 黃鱔 Yellow Eel
65 蘇眉 Humphead Wrasse
66 白雪魚 Cod
67 黃𩶘䱽 Pompano
68 鯽魚 Crucian Carp
69 太陽魚/翻車魨 Sunfish
70 九棍 Lizard Fish
71 烏頭 Grey Mullet
72 門鱔 Pike Eel
73 撻沙 Macau Sole
74 老鼠斑 High Fin Grouper
75 左口魚 Flounder
76 銀鰽 Snapper
77 魽魚 Trevally
78 鯉魚 Common Carp
79 鯪魚 Mud Carp/Dace
80 蕃茄斑 Tomato Hind
