Furthermore, due to the popular habit of eating certain foods to cure ailments in similarly shaped parts of the body, or simply for their rarity value, shark fins, mitten crabs and abalone, whether of the dry or fresh variety, have all been in vogue at one time or another.
加上民間吃形補形與物以稀為貴的心理，魚翅、鮑魚、大閘蟹、龍蝦，不分乾貨、活鮮，每每掀起一股吃的風潮。