Stinky mandarin fish, also known as snakehead, is a traditional dish and one of the representatives of Anhui cuisine. It originated in Huizhou, Anhui Province (Huizhou is now Huangshan City) and is popular in Huizhou. People who meet for the first time are afraid to eat chopsticks, because the smell of mandarin fish is a little worrying.

Mandarin fish, also known as squid, is a carnivorous scaly fish; Taxonomically, it belongs to fatty fish. Siniperca chuatsi has a flat body, a bulging back, a thick body and a pointed head. It is one of the "four famous freshwater fish" in China. The meat of mandarin fish is tender, with less thorns and more meat. Its meat is petal-shaped and delicious, and it is really the best among fish. Zhang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a famous sentence in his "Fishing Song", "Egrets fly in front of the Cisse Mountain, and the peach blossoms are flowing and the mandarin fish is fat", and he is full of praise for this kind of fish.