Exotic seafood’s strong taste acquiring reputation (7)
I believe the answer is:
trepang
'reputation' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'exotic seafood's strong taste acquiring' is the wordplay.
'exotic seafood' becomes 'rep' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'strong taste' becomes 'tang' (I've seen this before).
'acquiring' indicates putting letters inside.
'rep' inserted into 'tang' is 'TREPANG'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for trepang that I've seen before include "Sea cucumber" , "Chinese food" , "Chinese delicacy" .)