In this video, I will explain how to say some
food in Chinese. I hope you will find they are interesting.
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Hello Dajia hao. This is John. We will learn how to say bread, egg, milk and other food in Chinese today.
1. Bread
miànbāo
We say miànbāo for bread in Chinese. Mian means flour, Bao means bag. Am I right that Bread in Chinese is a bag made of flour? Yes, I am right. So Mianbao, literally flour bag is bread.
We say miànbāo for bread in Chinese. Mian means flour, Bao means bag. Am I right that Bread in Chinese is a bag made of flour? Yes, I am right. So Mianbao, literally flour bag is bread.
As Mian means flour in
Chinese, then we have word miàntiáo noodle.
Here Tiao means strip. Miantiao literally is flour strip.
As Bao means bag, we
have word Baozi which is another kind of common Chinese food translated as
steamed stuffed bun in the dictionary.
2. Egg jīdàn
In Chinese Ji means
chicken, Dan means egg, so Jidan is basically Chicken eggs. It is very common
we have duck eggs and quail eggs. Yādàn duck egg.
Ānchúndàn quail
egg.
We even have a kind of
egg called pídàn. In
English it is called 1000-year egg. You have to try it when you are in China
3. Milk niúnǎi
In Chinese Niu means
cattle, it could be ox, cow or bull, it is a general idea. Nǎi means
milk. Niunai literally means cow milk.
We have goat milk too,
it is called yánɡnǎi, Yang is
also a general conception. It could be sheep, mutton or goat.
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