Last updated July 7, 2009

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上 - Cooking 1

Cooking (2)

Cooking 3 - 下

Ingredients 2
egg	蛋	daan2	chicken egg	雞蛋	gai1 daan2
oil	油	jau4	soya sauce	豉油	si6 jau4
noodles	麵	min6	raw rice	米	mai5
rice powder	粉	fan2	cooked rice	飯	faan6
long grain rice	沾米	zim1 mai5	glutinous rice	糯米	no6 mai5
salt	鹽	jim4

Tastes
sour	酸	syun1	sweet	甜	tim4
bitter	苦	fu2	hot (spicy)	辣	laat6
salty	鹹	haam4	tasteless	淡	taam5 / daam6

Extra Food Notes!

Chinese people eat eggs from several birds which is why you need to clarify your meaning with 雞
淡 also means weak (when speaking about tea etc), lacking salt and insipid - so you can insult food with it!

Character Analysis

粉 - note this is made up of the 米 (rice) radical and 分 (meaning to divide). So you can remember this by imagining rice being ground into powder. 粉 can also mean flour.
鹽 and 鹹 are extremely complex character to write which is why they are printed bigger!