Common name: Painted sweetlip, Painted blubber-lips, Australian slatey, Blackall, Bluey, Greysweetlips, Sailfin rubberlip, Pointed sweet lip, Slatey sweetlips, Common thick-lipped grunt, Grunt, Grunter, Morwong, Painted grunt, Slate bream, Sweetlip, Thicklip bream

Japanese name: Korodai (胡廬鯛)

Scientific name: Diagramma picta (Thunberg,1792)

Nigiri sushi detail: Painted sweetlip (Korodai) Nigiri sushi

Taiwan common name: 密點少棘胡椒鯛、雞仔魚、加志、少棘石鱸、圭誌 (澎湖)、烏嘉誌 (澎湖)

Characteristics:

Painted sweetlip (Korodai) is distributed south of central Honshu and in the Indo-West Pacific region. It inhabits coastal reefs and surrounding sandy muddy bottoms. The body length is 30~40 cm. It reaches a maximum length of 70 cm. As they grow, they change color, pattern, and appearance. Adults are blue with small yellowish-brown spots. The season starts in the fall and lasts until early summer of the following year.

Korodai are not a member of the Red seabream (Tai) family, but rather of the Chicken grunt (Isaki) family. The family of the Japanese anchovy means that it is a tasty white-fleshed fish. Its white flesh is light, but it has a chewy texture and a hint of sweetness. It is said that juvenile fish are not tasty, but adult fish are delicious and can be made into sashimi, grilled, or simmered. And it is inexpensive.

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