苏菜 (蘇菜)
Sū cài
Pinyin

Definition

苏菜 (蘇菜)
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Sū cài
  1. Jiangsu 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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他们的口味都比较清爽、喜欢用糖调味，也使用很多河鲜。江苏菜更加重视汤头和刀工，比如扬州干丝，而且还有很多炖菜。浙江菜则比较爽滑，偏重小炒。
tāmen de kǒu wèi dōu bǐjiào qīngshuǎng 、xǐhuan yòng táng tiáowèi ，yě shǐyòng hěn duō héxiān 。jiāngsūcài gèngjiā zhòngshì tāngtóu hé dāogōng ，bǐrú yángzhōu gānsī ，érqiě hái yǒu hěn duō dùncài 。zhèjiāngcài zé bǐjiào shuǎnghuá ，piānzhòng xiǎochǎo 。
Their flavors are both rather mild, and they like to use sugar. They also use a lot of freshwater mollusks and shrimp. Jiangsu cooking puts more importance on soups as health food and they use knives quite a lot, with things like Yangzhou tofu, and they eat a lot of stewed foods. Zhejiang food on the other hand goes down smooth, with a lot of stir-fry.
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