Professor Chang Hung-min of Taiwan University's Graduate Institute of Food Science and Technology says that the Chinese have always liked to eat gelatinous foods, such as pork tendons, chicken feet and duck feet to name but a few. There is nothing surprising about shark fins being used as food, for this fits in with Chinese gastronomic habits, just as other countries have their own culinary culture.
台大食品科技研究所教授張鴻民表示，中國人一向喜愛吃膠質食物，如豬蹄筋、雞腳、鴨掌，花樣繁多，鯊魚鰭會被利用並不奇怪，這是中國人的飲食習慣，就像其他國家也有自己的飲食文化一樣。