And doesn't the poem "Mullet" by Sun Wenke of the Ming dynasty sing a very different tune from Zhang Han's eulogy to sliced perch? "My home is in Yuezhou, the sea close by to the east / The delicious taste of mullet surpasses that of perch."
明代孫文恪的「鯔魚」詩就與張翰的鱸魚膾大唱反調：思歸夜夜夢鄉君，何事南宮尚曳裙，家在越州東近海，鯔魚味美勝鱸魚。