Vocabulary: 家肴
- 弄 nòng: 弄 nong4: to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with弄 lòng: 弄 long4: lane; alley
- four; 4
- 荤 hūn: 荤 hun1: strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar; obscene荤 xūn: 荤 xun1: used in 葷粥|荤粥[Xun1 yu4]
- raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
- cold dish; cold food
- what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...; (derog.) so-called
- non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
- 更 gèng: 更 geng4: more; even more; further; still; still more更 gēng: 更 geng1: to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
- to do sth for show; to keep up appearances
- central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- handful (of)
- to cut up (into pieces); to slice; to carve; to dice; to shred
- thin slice; thin section; flake; Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4]
- petal; CL:片[pian4]
- (bound form) form; appearance; shape; (bound form) state; condition; (bound form) to describe; (bound form) written complaint; lawsuit; (bound form) certificate
- 海 Hǎi: 海 Hai3: surname Hai海 hǎi: 海 hai3: ocean; sea; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous
- to hibernate
- 头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns
- century egg; preserved egg
- 切 qiē: 切 qie1: to cut; to slice; to carve; (math.) tangential切 qiè: 切 qie4: definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters)
- 丁 zhēng: 丁 zheng1: used in 丁丁[zheng1 zheng1]丁 dīng: 丁 ding1: male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl丁 Dīng: 丁 Ding1: surname Ding
- to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- small dried shrimp
- to mix; to mix in; to toss (a salad)
- considered to be; at last
- 量 liàng: 量 liang4: capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量詞|量词[liang4 ci2], classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word量 liáng: 量 liang2: to measure
- visitor; guest; customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- to dress cold food with sauce; (slang) there's not much you can do about it (wordplay using 拌[ban4] instead of its homophone 辦|办[ban4])
- salt water; brine
- immature green soy beans, either still in the pod (edamame) or removed from the pod
- or; possibly; maybe; perhaps
- oil; fat; grease; petroleum; to apply tung oil, paint or varnish; oily; greasy; glib; cunning
- to float; to deep-fry
- the flesh of a fruit; pulp
- to deep fry
- peanut; CL:粒[li4]
- things like this (idiom); and so on; and the rest; etc
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- kao fu, a spongy wheat gluten product used in Chinese cuisine
- to be popular; to be well-liked; to be warmly received