The scales of anchovies are fine and rich in high-quality fat and gelatinous proteins, cooked into a half-melted gelatinous form, the taste in the mouth is very fresh, not only taste good and have excellent calcium, cosmetic effect. In the cooking time without directly removing the fish scales can be directly steamed, appropriate to eat some fish scales also has the role of anti-cancer.

Shad, river and sea migratory fish, which is rich in nutrition, has a high medicinal value, is included in the Red Book of China's endangered animals. Yellowtail between April and June during the reproductive season upriver, in the middle and lower reaches of the river Ho spawning and breeding. Food is mainly plankton, sometimes also eat other organic matter. Distribution of China's South China Sea and the East China Sea, but also in the Yangtze River, Pearl River, Qiantang River and other basins in the middle and lower reaches.