粤菜 (粵菜)
Yuè cài
Pinyin

Definition

粤菜 (粵菜)
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Yuè cài
  1. Cantonese cuisine

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

菜
cài
  1. 1 dish (type of food)
  2. 2 vegetable
  3. 3 cuisine
  4. 4 classifier: 盘 pán
  5. 5 classifier: 道 dào
  6. 6 (coll.) (one's) type
  7. 7 (of one's skills etc) weak
  8. 8 poor
菜刀
cài dāo
  1. 1 vegetable knife
  2. 2 kitchen knife
  3. 3 cleaver
  4. 4 classifier: 把 bǎ
蔬菜
shū cài
  1. 1 vegetables
  2. 2 classifier: 种 zhǒng
青菜
qīng cài
  1. 1 green vegetables
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage
上菜
shàng cài
  1. 1 to serve food

Idioms (7)

小菜一碟
xiǎo cài yī dié
  1. 1 a small appetizer
  2. 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
捡到篮里就是菜
jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì cài
  1. 1 all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
看人下菜碟儿
kàn rén xià cài dié r
  1. 1 (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)
  2. 2 not to treat everyone equally favorably
看菜吃饭
kān cài chī fàn
  1. 1 to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances
  2. 2 to live within one's means
看菜吃饭，量体裁衣
kān cài chī fàn , liáng tǐ cái yī
  1. 1 eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure
  2. 2 to act according to actual circumstances
  3. 3 to live within one's means

Sample Sentences

鲁菜、川菜、湘菜、粤菜、闽菜、苏菜、浙菜和徽菜。
lǔ cài 、chuāncài 、xiāngcài 、yuècāi 、mǐncài 、sūcài 、zhècài hé huīcài 。
Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunanese cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Minnan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine and Anhui cuisine.
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呀，两个人同时回答，难分上下。那谁能再说出粤菜的一个特色？
yā ，liǎng gè rén tóngshí huídá ，nánfēnshàngxià 。nā shéi néng zài shuōchū yuècāi de yī ge tèsè ？
Whoa, both people replied at the same time. It's hard to tell who was first. Well, who can give a characteristic of Cantonese food?
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想到家乡菜就忍不住咽口水啊，再往南边到广东，粤菜就兼融中西菜色，自成一家了。粤菜的用料很广博，选料珍奇，简单的说，广东人什么都敢吃。
xiǎngdào jiāxiāng cài jiù rěnbuzhù yàn kǒushuǐ ā ，zài wǎng nánbiān dào Guǎngdōng ，yuècāi jiù jiān róng zhōng xī càisè ，zìchéngyī jiā le 。yuècāi de yòngliào hěn guǎngbó ，xuǎn liào zhēnqí ，jiǎndān de shuō ，Guǎngdōng rén shénme dōu gǎn chī 。
My mouth can't help watering thinking of local hometown dishes, a little further south to Guangdong we have Cantonese food, which is a fusion between Chinese and Western cuisine, forming a tradition of its own. Lots of ingredients are used for Cantonese food, they use a lot of odd ingredients. Simply speaking, people from Guangdong eat anything.
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哈哈，真的，“龙虎斗”就是蛇肉猫肉的风味组合，真是不敢想象。香港很多茶餐厅也是粤菜风味！一想到不久就要去各地拍摄，好期待呀！
hāhā ，zhēnde ，“lóng hǔ dòu ”jiùshì shé ròu māo ròu de fēngwèi zǔhé ，zhēn shì bùgǎn xiǎngxiàng 。Xiānggǎng hěn duō chá cāntīng yě shì yuècāi fēngwèi ！yī xiǎngdào bùjiǔ jiùyào qù gèdì pāishè ，hǎo qīdài ya ！
Haha, that's true.The dish "tiger fighting dragon" is a combination of the flavors of snake and cat meat, it's really beyond belief. Many Cha Chaan teng, or tea restaurants, in Hong Kong also count as Cantonese style food! Just thinking of going to all these places to film is making me really excited!
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中国幅员辽阔，每个地方都有自己的家乡菜，但如今，各地家乡菜都成了我们的家常菜，比如川菜粤菜。
Zhōngguó fúyuán liáokuò ，měige dìfang dōu yǒu zìjǐ de jiāxiāng cài ，dàn rújīn ，gèdì jiāxiāng cài dōu chéng le wǒmen de jiāchángcài ，bǐrú Chuāncài yuècāi 。
China is such a vast place, every place has its own local dishes, but nowadays, local dishes from everywhere have become regular dishes in our homes, like Sichuanese dishes and Cantonese food.
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