The book even clearly describes the taste of various specious. Today, among the visitors looking out from the birdwatching trail at the mallards and pintails on the Tanshui River mudflats, surely some are secretly thinking: "Farm-bred ducks don't taste half as good as wild ones!"
今下賞鳥步道上遊客望著淡水河灘地的綠頭鴨、尖尾鴨，想來也有那醉翁之意不在酒的：家鴨那有野鴨香？