In her 2007 gastronomically themed novel Mandarin Duck Spring Feast, Li describes how her father would take her to try foods from the wild. "Mydeepest impression is of sitting on a little bench with a pair of chopsticks and an empty bowl, watching like a hawk as the tastes of the season bubbled up in the pot," she says.
2007 年出版的飲食小說《鴛鴦春膳》一書中，李昂敘述父親常愛帶著她吃野味，「印象最深刻的是，手中捧個空碗、拿雙筷子坐在小板凳上，然後虎視眈眈看火爐上那個隨季節飄著各種奇特香味的鍋子。」