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to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
lunch / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
breakfast / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
electric rice cooker
HSK 5
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cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
restaurant / hotel / CL: , 個|个
HSK 1
reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)
HSK 7-9
meal in a partitioned box
HSK 5
restaurant / CL:
HSK 2
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
to lose one's job
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
to get food at a canteen
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
set meal
to cook
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
lunch
cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal
Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
dining room for young schoolchildren unable to go home for lunch
the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten / the good things in life are worth waiting for
to serve a meal
(coll.) to burst out laughing
egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)
to eat / to have a meal
Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
farewell dinner party
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
risotto
porridge; gruel; congee
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
(coll.) to have a meal
(lit. and fig.) meal ticket
half-cooked rice / (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance / Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4]
Xinjiang-style pilaf, made with lamb
rice cooker
to live off a woman
to look for a job
to fill a bowl with rice
bibimbap (Korean cuisine)
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
(coll.) to mooch a meal
grand hotel; large, upscale hotel
to work for a living
rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing
food
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
grain of cooked rice
lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes / to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
(fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life
walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)
rice paddle
fan community / fandom
dining hall / canteen / cafeteria
(coll.) (of an actor with a bit part) to receive a boxed meal when one's job is done (phrase used e.g. by movie viewers when a character dies)
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal
rice with meat and vegetables
wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing
(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")
pet food bowl / dog bowl
rice paddle
meal card
lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty
secure and lucrative job
(coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)
plain tea and simple food / (fig.) bread and water
dining table
to beg (for food or money)
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
rice with meat and vegetables
food
leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
no heart for tea or rice (idiom); melancholic and suffering / to have no appetite
pork-leg rice – either a Guangdong (Chaozhou-Shantou) specialty of braised pork leg over rice or the Thai-Chinese dish "khao kha mu"
egg fried rice
have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)
person hired to lure customers to a restaurant
cooked white rice
post cibum (pharm.) / to take (medicine) after a meal
lunchbox / mess tin
to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to provide board
fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band
mealtime (lunchtime, dinnertime etc)

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