Babel is one of the eight treasures in ancient cooking, and there are different views on its composition. A popular view is: ginseng (sea cucumber), wing (shark fin), bone (fish bone, also known as fish crisp), abdomen (fish belly), nest (bird's nest), palm (bear's paw), tendon (deer tendon) and frog (clam).

3. One of the ingredients called Shuibazhen is skirt: shark's fin, abalone, fish lips, sea cucumber, skirt (soft meat like apron outside turtle shell), scallop, fish crisp and frog.