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restaurant / hotel / CL: , 個|个
HSK 1
evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
lunch / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
breakfast / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
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  *飯* | 飯* | *飯
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
restaurant / CL:
HSK 2
meal in a partitioned box
HSK 5
electric rice cooker
HSK 5
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
New Year's Eve family dinner
HSK 7-9
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
rice ball (steamed rice formed into a ball and stuffed with various fillings) / onigiri (Japanese-style rice ball)
lunchbox / mess tin
dining room / dining hall / mess hall
(coll.) to mooch a meal
Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
rice cooker
grand hotel; large, upscale hotel
plain tea and simple food / (fig.) bread and water
fried sticky rice
food
leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
to cook
leftover food
to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to provide board
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
food
to beg (for food or money)
rice with meat and vegetables
to get food at a canteen
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
lunch
rice paddle
to fill a bowl with rice
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
rice with meat and vegetables
(fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year
to put some food aside for sb / to invite sb to stay for a meal / invitation to dinner
amount of food one eats / portion size
(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. / also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭
to serve a meal
(lit. and fig.) meal ticket
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang)
big restaurant
to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content
to lose one's job
secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
cooked white rice
to work for a living
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
(coll.) to burst out laughing
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
no heart for tea or rice (idiom); melancholic and suffering / to have no appetite
to look for a job
food and drink
risotto
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
to roll rice balls / rice ball
lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty
spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal / crumbs from the feast
set meal
an unappealing and unsatisfying meal
rice au gratin
(coll.) gesture by an idol aimed at delighting fans (e.g. winking or throwing signed items); to interact with fans in such a manner (loanword from Japanese "fansābisu" – literally, "fan service")
having nothing better to do / see 吃飽撐著|吃饱撑着
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal
bibimbap (Korean cuisine)
eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
omurice, Japanese dish consisting of an omelet wrapped around fried rice and often topped with ketchup
rice dishes (on menu)
food coma / postprandial somnolence
onigiri (Japanese-style riceball)
fan community / fandom
post cibum (pharm.) / to take (medicine) after a meal
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang) / pilau
kept man
dining hall / canteen / cafeteria
rice paddle
egg fried rice
brunch
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now.
(coll.) to have a meal
Xinjiang-style pilaf, made with lamb

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