Two Minute Cantonese Lesson Two: Food(2)

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Here’s the mp3 for Lesson Two. We continue to talk about food since it is important and useful.

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Lesson Two: Food (2)

Today, we are going to continue to talk about food.

First we should learn a useful sentence pattern:
I want …
ngo5 jiu3
? ? …

How do you say “I want a bowl of soup of the day.”?
ngo5 jiu3 jat1 wun2 lai6 tong1
? ? ? ? ? ??
I want/need a bowl sample soup.
Sample soup actually means the soup that they cook in a very big pot so that many people can get a portion from the same pot.

Now words that you can put into this sentence pattern:

????

two bowl white rice = two bowls of steamed rice.

jat1 dip6 haa1 jan4 caau2 gai1 daan2
???????
one plate of shrimp meat stir fried with chicken egg.

???
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????? half Peking duck
????? one whole soy source chicken
???? Mapo doufu (Mapo tofu) is a popular Chinese dish from the Sichuan (Szechuan) province. It is a combination of tofu (bean curd) and minced meat, usually beef, in a spicy chili- and bean-based sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension. See Wikipedia

????? ginger and green scallion steamed lobster
????
? = spicy
?? = not spicy
? = salty
? = plain
? = sweet

? = hot
? = cold
?? = preserved egg (a thousand year old egg?)