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milkfish (countable and uncountable, plural milkfishes or milkfish)
- Chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.
2009 February 15, Mark Foggin, “Fast Food for the Filipino Soul”, in New York Times[1]:
Its fare is a mix of fast-food staples like burgers and Chickenjoy, along with more regional dishes like smoked bangus, or milkfish — a national symbol of the Philippines — served with vinegar and pepper.
2016, Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, “Winning Hearts and Minds? On the Sources and Efficacy of Economic Engagement Policies in US-China and China-Taiwan Relations”, in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman, editors, The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking[2], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 159–160:
The Taiwanese milkfish industry has faced troubles in recent years, and in 2011 a state-owned PRC firm placed an order for the fish from the town of Syuejia (Xuejia) in Tainan County.
Chanos chanos
- Bikol Central: bangus
- Bulgarian: млечна риба f (mlečna riba)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 虱目魚 (sat1 muk6 jyu4-2)
- Hokkien: 虱目魚 (zh-min-nan) (sat-ba̍k-hî/sat-ba̍k-hû)
- Mandarin: 虱目魚 (zh) (shīmùyú)
- Dutch: bandeng (nl) m
- Finnish: maitokala
- French: poisson-lait (fr) m
- German: Milchfisch (de) m
- Hawaiian: awa
- Hungarian: indiai hering, tejhal
- Indonesian: bandeng (id)
- Japanese: 虱目魚 (さばひい, sabahī)
- Javanese: ꦧꦤ꧀ꦢꦼꦁ (bandeng)
- Korean: 갯농어 (gaennong'eo)
- Russian: ха́нос m (xános)
- Spanish: sabalote m, pez de leche m
- Tagalog: bangus
- Turkish: süt balığı