Buy fresh mentai fish, open and wash it and soak it in salt water for one hour, add some monosodium glutamate in the salt water, hang it on the balcony to dry, it is best to dry it in the fall, when it is dry, it is ready to eat.
Wash, remove the viscera, salt the surface and marinate for 12 hours, then hang up to dry for 36 hours, the skin can be dry, and frozen for preservation.
Hainan region, then, mintai fish in the fall and winter season is not good to dry, it is best to use the drying method. If it is summer, it can be salted for two days and then exposed to the sun. Exposure to the sun by hanging, in a ventilated place, to avoid mosquito bites and dirty. It is good to close the package after drying.