Turtle soup, turtle meat. Although the kitchen was small, it was stocked with all the necessities that Chu Xian required for the trip.
For obvious reasons, they typically ate seafood, so he told Old Huang to learn different methods of preparing food.
Old Huang hadn't studied the methods of turtle cooking, and even though there was a famous turtle dish in the Qing and Han Royal Dynasty Feast, Chu Xian didn't even know what it was. Old Huang hadn't studied obscure and uncommon dishes either.
Old Huang prepared the turtle the same way he would prepare an ordinary green turtle; the only difference was he required two pots to accommodate the turtle's size.
"This is delicious! It tastes really good!" Chu Xian took a sip of the turtle soup and sighed in enjoyment.
The thick white broth smelled amazing, and even though Old Huang wasn't very experienced yet, it was delicious.
1 – just look it up bruh. For what the author is talking about, you let vertical nets sink down in a circle around the school of fish (fencing them in), and then you somehow shrink the bottom edge of the net/fence so you can (presumably) raise the whole net and scoop up all the fish.
2 – author implies that the throwing fish back practice isn’t prevalent in China.
My super educated guess is that the lamp light imitates the light some shiny algae give off that shrimp and small fishies eat. Or it’s something like wasps to the flame. Either or