People from the interior think of seafood as being rank, while coast dwellers can never get used to the predilection for fresh fish has been well known down the ages, yet when he was on Hainan Island, he said of the seafood which people in Hong Kong and Taiwan today flock to eat: "When ill, I dread rankness and saltiness--I do not buy their fish."
內陸人嫌海貨腥，沿海人士卻怎麼也吃不慣河魚的土味。蘇東坡好吃時鮮，在海南島，他卻對著今天港、台人土趨之若鶩的海鮮說：「病怯腥鹹不買魚」。