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@skinnylatte 無魚蝦也好！”If you haven’t got a fish, a prawn is still good”.

I always thought the Taiwanese expression meant something like “beggars can’t be choosers” or “the little that we have is better than the nothing that we could have”. I once used it in front of my mother-in-law, and her shocked expression makes me think there might be a lot of sexual innuendo happening in those prawns and fish.

Hokkien seems to be a very earthy language.