Some items, he regrets, such as river turtle, are hard to find today, but modern markets are a far cry from the scarcity-plagued ration-card days he used to know.

• 有时，他也会为一些原料现在很难找到而痛惜，比如甲鱼。但更多时候他清楚，现在的市场远胜于过去时常被短缺所困扰的配给制度。