Glat perch and medicare yam

Glat perch Label in a Chinese fish market: The names for fish proliferate wildly by region and language. The name on the sign is "máng cáo 盲曹" (lit., "blind" + a morpheme that is used in various bureaucratic and political senses [see here]), perhaps the transcription of a local or non-Sinitic name. At first I thought […]