This act brought raw sea bass to fame, but when the immortal poet Li Bai (701--762), whose greatest passion in life was to roam the land visiting famous mountains, came to Sheng County in Zhejiang Province, he was he had not gone there for the sea bass, but purely to admire the landscape.
鱸魚膾就此大出鋒頭，詩仙李白一生只愛名山遊，到了浙江嵊縣，瓜田李下，也趕緊撇清關係：此行不為鱸魚膾，自愛名山入剡中。