Ok, I entered "halibut" into Google Translate and it returned 大比目魚.
I went to my neighborhood fish market asking for 大比目魚 and they looked at me funny, and not because of my cowboy hat either, I'm sure.
Of course, as a filthy rotten stinking commie organization, it's only natural that Google would translate everything into 煲冬瓜.
So, to all my HKer blogpals out there, what's 大比目魚 in authentic Chinese?
I often see frozen 比目魚 in supermarket. I don't know if there is an authentic Chinese name for it.
ReplyDeleteI goggled halibut and showed mum the photos. She said it's 鎗魚. I further goggled and there's another translation called 扁鱈.
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DeleteCan you show me a photo? I'll show it to dad. I guess he'll know.
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Thank you. Let me try it out.
DeleteChestnut, I forgot to respond to your other question. I don't have a picture. A 契女 of LC's said she liked halibut, so I tried to make it for her a few days ago, but couldn't find it in the wet market. And the kid doesn't know the Chinese name either.
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ReplyDeleteBTW, my dad also says it's a type of 鎗魚. Maybe you can ask for one in the fish market?
鎗魚? Really? That's the first one I recognize. It's whitish, and very flat. It's also quite cheap. About $30 for a pretty big one.
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Delete好似係撻沙魚。NY supermarket d 菜同魚都用強國 term,頭都大！
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撻沙 usually means those smaller local ones found near hk and macau, they look the same, I think 撻沙 translates into "local flounder"
halibut is bigger, and is available everywhere in the US and in europe...
flounders, turbots and halibut, there's a lot of overlapping in naming
I googled halibut and 龍利. So, they look the same to me. It's just that halibut is huge ones from Alaska.
ReplyDeleteSomebody else told me 龍利 just last night. But then I googled both 龍利 and 龍脷, and it returned "sole".....the plot thickens...
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