/view/26170.htm?fr=ala0_1_1 White Rice Fish is the Hong Kong name for Man Cheong Fish, which is also the common name for a kind of white cloth shoes in Hong Kong, and it also means "to see the light of death" in Cantonese. Slang A Cantonese slang term meaning "see the light and die". It is used as a metaphor for the death of a white rice fish because it will die once it is fished out of the water.