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Korean Through Hanja 한자어 정선: Each blog post will have some Sino-Korean words with a common Chinese character. If I were to learn 5 new Sino-Korean Words a day, that means I can learn more than 1800 words a year.
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Canto Mando Menu 菜單指南 I love Chinese food, and eventually I would like to learn how to read a Chinese menu entirely and be able to order in Mandarin and Cantonese. Blog posts will be in English and Japanese.

Yoji-Time 四字熟語: Learn how to use some common 4-character Japanese idiomatic expressions.

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Friday, May 14, 2010

Canto Mando Menu 菜單指南 Lesson # 2

yúxiāng qiézi jyu4 hoeng1 ke2 zi2
鱼香茄子 魚香茄子 This is a very simple and inexpensive dish. When I first saw this dish in a menu back when I was an exchange student at Suzhou University, I thought it was some sort of fried fish dish with eggplant. However what I was given was simply a mix of stir-fried eggplant with pork... and that's simply what it is. The sauces they use to flavour the dish are suppose to make the dish taste like fish. I don't really think it tastes like fish though, but it definitely tastes good!

これは本当に簡単で手ごろの料理です。蘇州大学で留学した時、あるレストランのメニューでこの料理を見た時になんか揚げた魚と茄子の料理だと思いました。でも料理が出てきたのはひき肉で炒めた茄子でした。この料理の調味料は魚の味がすると言われています。僕は魚の味がしないと思うけど、とにかくおいしいと思います。

Vocabulary:

鱼)- Fish
香 - Scent
茄子 - Eggplant


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