The scientific name of the Pearl Lapfish is Pearl Hairy-footed Perch, which belongs to the family of Climbing Perch. It comes from one of the three major origins of tropical fish in Southeast Asia, with Sumatra and Kalimantan in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia being the most abundant. It is silver-gray, the body belly and even the fins are inlaid with pearl-like gray spots, slowly swimming the whole body flashes with colorful pearls, look extraordinarily elegant and noble, soft and charming, and thus praised as pearl fish. Other Chinese names include pearl mackerel, mashanke fish, mashanke fish, colorful stone threadfin fish and so on.

Pearl fish taste delicious, tender meat, whether braised or cooked, the flavor is excellent. Determined, each one hundred grams of meat containing twenty grams of protein, more than six grams of fat, calories one hundred and forty-eight kilocalories, seventy milligrams of calcium, fifty milligrams of sodium, thirty-seven milligrams of phosphorus, one milligram of iron.