1 to prepare a meal

2 to cook

1 to have a meal

2 to eat

3 to make a living

1 New Year's Eve family dinner

1 evening meal

2 dinner

3 supper

4 classifier: 份 fèn

5 classifier: 顿 dùn

6 classifier: 次 cì

7 classifier: 餐 cān

1 hotpot

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes

2 to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)

1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)

1 one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom)

2 an empty sack cannot stand upright