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Er?

Clearly, they've looked up some word Chinese word in the Chinese-English dictionary, which was only defined in English as "a sort of soup". It's more a SiT thang, but it's fun to cross-translate using alta vista babel fish, and definitely wise if you are pretending to know a language...

I thought there must be more to it than that. But thanks Cogito.

Interesting that soup with eel is the dearest. We have rivers full of them over here and there's not a single person I know or a singular shop that retails it. It's just something not on the culinary radar for most Australians.

An English King died of a surfeit of lampreys.

An eccentric cockney artist mate of mine, taught by Ian Drury, visited from NZ. They hired a car and arrived late from the Airport. He excused their lateness by saying that they stopped to eat at a Pineal shop he knew as a child in the East End. I though 'pineal' referred to that funny little gland in the middle of our branes. I assumed it was some kind of health-kick aberration.

After some bizarre exchanges he revealed that they had eaten Eels, Mash and Green Liquor in a famous Pie & Eel shop.

When you finish your lunch there, the dish smiles!

Sorry, it smiles here!