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ID: 2687 Elementary
Beef Noodles. A lovely dish filled with "melt-in-your-mouth" beef and a broth that it hard to beat. But you might not know that you can also order it with tendon as well. In this dialogue we discuss 3 friends ordering at a restaurant, who are undecided on which variant to have.
Mon May 04 2015 | Gwilym, Fiona Tian
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
当然 dāngrán of course
牛肉面 niúròumiàn beef noodles
份 fèn measure word (portion)
卤大肠 lǔ dàcháng stewed (pork) intestine
你们要吃什么？
nǐmen yào chī shénme ？
Here, this is the menu, what do you want to eat?
当然是牛肉面啦！第一次吃牛肉面呢！还要一份卤大肠！
dāngrán shì niúròumiàn la ！dì yī cì chī niúròumiàn ne ！hái yào yī fèn lǔ dàcháng ！
Beef noodles of course! It's the first time I've ever had beef noodles! And a portion of stewed intestine!
好，牛肉面一碗，卤大肠一份，老黄呢？
hǎo ，niúròumiàn yī wǎn ，lǔ dàcháng yī fèn ，lǎo huáng ne ？
OK, one bowl of beef noodles and one portion of stewed intestine. What about you Laohuang?
我要半筋半肉，再加一盘豆干。
wǒ yào bànjīn bànròu ，zài jiā yī pán dòugān 。
I want beef noodles with a mixture of meat and tendon and a plate of dried tofu.
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