{"id":10765,"date":"2019-11-17T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/lesson-078-restaurants-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T13:06:23","slug":"lesson-078-restaurants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/lesson-078-restaurants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 078 Restaurants 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>YJ: Perfect Chinese your way, in o<em><\/em>nly five minutes a day, welcome to Chinese Studio,&nbsp; wo shi Yajie.<br \/>  Cam:&nbsp;  wo shi Cam. Yajie, yesterday we learned how a waiter or waitress asks  us what we want to eat or drink&#8230; now it&#8217;s time to fill our stomachs!<br \/>  YJ:  As you know, there are a variety of wo<em><\/em>nderful Chinese dishes. And we  are going to learn what they are, and how to order them over the next  few days on Chinese Studio. <br \/>  Cam: Perfect!<\/p>\n<p>****************<br \/>  <strong>Key Words of the Day<\/strong><br \/>  Spicy  Chicken \u8fa3\u5b50\u9e21(la4zi ji1)\uff1bpanfried tomato and eggs \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\u7092\u9e21\u86cb \uff08xi1hong2shi4  chao3 ji1dan4\uff09\uff1bRice, \u7c73\u996d(mi3fan4)\uff1b noodles \u9762\u6761(mian4tiao2)\u3002All in today&#8217;s  Chinese Studio.<br \/>  ********<\/p>\n<p>YJ: So Cam, what do you like to eat?<br \/>  Cam: Yajie, the question should be what DON&#8217;T I like to eat&#8230; I&#8217;ll eat anything.<br \/>  Especially delicious Chinese food! <br \/>  YJ: Ok, then as a girl from Sichuan, I stro<em><\/em>ngly recommend you to try\u8fa3\u5b50\u9e21(la4zi ji1).<br \/>  Cam: \u8fa3\u5b50\u9e21(la4zi ji1)?<br \/>  YJ:  Very good. It&rsquo;s spicy chicken, one typical dish in Sichuan cuisine\u3002 As  you know, Sichuan food is characterized by hot, pungent, and salty  flavors.<br \/>  Cam: I see. So&hellip;does \u8fa3\u5b50(la4zi) mean pepper in Chinese?<br \/>  YJ: Yes. \u8fa3\u5b50(la4zi) is the informal name of pepper. \u8fa3\u5b50(la4zi) is a little bit easier to pronounce.&nbsp; <br \/>  Cam: \u8fa3\u5b50(la4zi), pepper. And \u9e21(ji1) means chicken. Right?<br \/>  YJ: Right. \u9e21(ji1), ji the first tone. Chicken. <br \/>  Cam: \u8fa3\u5b50\u9e21(la4zi ji1), spicy chicken.<br \/>  YJ: Very good!<\/p>\n<p>Co<em><\/em>nversation 1:<\/p>\n<p>Cam: I&#8217;d like to have some vegetables too. Because my muma always  told me to eat vegetables. What a<em><\/em>bout panfried tomatoes and eggs?<br \/>  YJ: It&#8217;s also one of my favorites. In Chinese it&#8217;s \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\u7092\u9e21\u86cb \uff08xi1hong2shi4 chao3 ji1dan4\uff09.<br \/>  Cam: \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\u7092\u9e21\u86cb \uff08xi1hong2shi4 chao3 ji1dan4\uff09.<br \/>  YJ: Yes. \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\uff08xi1hong2shi4\uff09 means tomato, we learned this word before.<br \/>  Cam:&nbsp; \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\uff08xi1hong2shi4\uff09.<br \/>  YJ: And\u9e21\u86cb (ji1dan4) means egg. <br \/>  Cam: \u9e21\u86cb (ji1dan4). I eat \u9e21\u86cb (ji1dan4) almost every morning.&nbsp; <br \/>  YJ: Good for you.\u7092(chao3) means stir-fry or pan fry.<br \/>  Cam: \u7092(chao3), c-h-a-o, the third tone, right?<br \/>  YJ: Yes. Together it&rsquo;s \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\u7092\u9e21\u86cb \uff08xi1hong2shi4 chao3 ji1dan4\uff09.<br \/>  Cam:  \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\u7092\u9e21\u86cb\uff08xi1hong2shi4 chao3 ji1dan4\uff09. Yajie, I see that when someone says  &ldquo;he\/she has been\u7092\u9c7f\u9c7c(chao3 you2yu2)&rdquo;, they seem to be sad. Does that  phrase have some special meaning?&nbsp; (chao youyu). <br \/>  YJ: Well, literally it means stir-fry squid. But it can also mean &ldquo;sack someone or fire somebody&rdquo;.<br \/>  Cam: I see. I don&rsquo;t want to be \u7092\u9c7f\u9c7c(chao3 you2yu2). <br \/>  YJ: Nobody wants to be \u7092\u9c7f\u9c7c(chao3 you2yu2).<\/p>\n<p>Co<em><\/em>nversation 2:<\/p>\n<p>Cam: So Yajie, could you please introduce to me some main courses that Chinese people usually eat? I want to give them a try.<br \/>  YJ:  No problem. How a<em><\/em>bout rice or noodles? Rice is \u7c73\u996d(mi3fan4). \u7c73, m-i, the  third tone; and \u996d, f-a-n, the fourth tone. Cam: \u7c73\u996d(mi3fan4).<br \/>  YJ: And noodles are\u9762\u6761(mian4tiao2) . <br \/>  Cam: \u9762\u6761(mian4tiao2).<br \/>  YJ: \u7c73\u996d(mi3fan4), rice. <br \/>  Cam: \u7c73\u996d(mi3fan4).<br \/>  YJ: And \u9762\u6761(mian4tiao2), noodles. <br \/>  Cam: \u9762\u6761(mian4tiao2).<\/p>\n<p>Co<em><\/em>nversation 3:<\/p>\n<p>  *****Key Words Reminder:<br \/>  Spicy Chicken \u8fa3\u5b50\u9e21(la4zi ji1)\uff1b panfried  tomato and eggs \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff\u7092\u9e21\u86cb \uff08xi1hong2shi4 chao3 ji1dan4\uff09\uff1bRice,  \u7c73\u996d(mi3fan4);noodles \u9762\u6761(mian4tiao2)\u3002<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3750977045\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YJ: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day, welcome to Chinese Studio,&nbsp; wo shi Yajie.<br \/>\n  Cam:&nbsp;  wo shi Cam. Yajie, yesterday we learned how a waiter or waitress asks  us what we want to eat or drink&#8230; now it&#8217;s time to fill our stomachs!<br \/>\n  YJ:  As you know, there are a variety of wonderful Chinese dishes. And we  are going to learn what they are, and how to order them over the next  few days on Chinese Studio.<br \/>\n  Cam: Perfect!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2853],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoken-chinese","tag-chinese-studio"],"views":187,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}