Chinese vocabulary: Food & cooking – 98 words with pictures, audio & printable flashcards

妈都做好饭等你了

Mom has already finished cooking and is waiting for you

陈醋让菜很香。

The vinegar makes the food very fragrant.

证据就是味道一样！

The evidence is that the taste is the same!

看起来好吃!

Looks delicious!

她每天煮一锅汤，叫孟婆汤。

Every day she cooks a pot of soup, called Meng Po Soup.

这些树上长满了桃子，又大又甜。

These trees were covered with peaches, both big and sweet.

你居然抄我的牛肉面配方！

You actually copied my beef noodle recipe!

他做了一个拉面动作，手腕转动，面团变细。

He made a pulling noodles movement, the wrist turned, and the dough became thin.

她明明只准备了二十笼的材料，可是到了开门营业的时候，厨房里却摆着二十一笼热气腾腾的包子。

She clearly only prepared ingredients for twenty steamers, but when it came time to open for business, the kitchen actually had displayed twenty-one steamers of piping hot buns.

好，我们找食物的地方。

Okay, let's look for places with food.

好,我说。你们听着,别打断我。文轩太公,是我婆婆的公公。那一年闹饥荒,村里快断粮了,他半夜出去,跟山那边的土匪换了粮食,救了全村人的命。可是后来有人查出来,他跟土匪头子是拜把兄弟,村里就传他通匪,说他丢祖宗的脸。族里长辈开会,决定把他那一代的名字全部划掉,不许后人再提,免得连累子孙,也怕"通匪"这个罪名传下去。其实……他没做错什么,他是为了救命才去的。可是那个年代,没人肯听这个理。

Okay, I'll tell you. Listen, and don't interrupt me. Grandpa Wenxuan was my mother-in-law's father-in-law. That year, there was a famine, and the village was running out of food. He went out in the middle of the night and traded with bandits on the other side of the mountain for grain, saving the lives of everyone in the village. But later, someone found out that he was sworn brothers with the bandit leader, and rumors spread in the village that he colluded with bandits, saying he disgraced the ancestors. The elders in the clan held a meeting and decided to cross out all the names of his generation and not allow future generations to mention them, to avoid implicating the descendants and also fearing that the crime of 'colluding with bandits' would be passed down. Actually... he didn't do anything wrong; he did it to save lives. But in that era, no one was willing to listen to reason.

像冻了很久的肉。

Like meat that has been frozen for a long time.

它很大，喜欢吃鸡和米。

It is very big, and it likes to eat chickens and rice.

他很饿，想吃东西。

He is very hungry, wants to eat something.

纸条写着：辣椒、油、姜、大蒜。

The paper said (was written with): Chili, oil, ginger, garlic.

更奇怪的是，那多出来的一笼包子，捏法跟别的不太一样——皮上有一个小小的旋儿，跟老李生前捏包子的手法一模一样。

What was even stranger was that that extra steamer of buns, the way they were pinched was a bit different from the others— there was a tiny swirl on the skin, exactly the same as the technique Old Li used when he was alive.

碗里的汤是黑色的，闻起来很苦。

The soup in the bowl was black, and smelled very bitter.

小狗看面包。

The little dog looks at the bread.

里面有半份鱼、半份青菜和半份鸡蛋。

Inside were half a portion of fish, half a portion of vegetables, and half a portion of egg.

小林准备好米饭、鸡蛋、火腿和虾，但是找不到青豆。

Xiaolin prepared rice, eggs, ham, and shrimp, but couldn’t find any peas.

王先生问：“你喜欢吃辣的，对不对？”

Mr. Wang asked: “You like eating spicy (things), right?”

靠近桥那边卖米线的

The one selling rice noodles near the bridge

纸条写着：辣椒、油、姜、大蒜。

The paper said (was written with): Chili, oil, ginger, garlic.

我也老骂你的汤太淡。

I also used to always complain your soup was too bland.

是啊，我还老骂你的面太咸。

Yeah, and I used to always complain your noodles were too salty.

妈妈在厨房里做腊八粥。

Mom in/at the kitchen is making Laba porridge .

火锅的味道，今晚没有关门。

The smell of hotpot, didn't close its doors tonight.

他在夜市卖面条。

He at the night market sells noodles.

两位妈妈都觉得自己的方子才是“正宗”的，谁也不肯让步。

Both mothers felt their own recipe was the 'authentic' one, and neither was willing to back down.

结果今天有个熟客说，隔壁那家（阿强）的汤味道跟我一样，连我加的那个秘密香料都有。

Turns out today a regular customer said, the soup flavor at the shop next door (A Qiang's) is the same as mine, it even has that secret spice I add.

你可以选几种，米饭也是小碗。

You can choose several kinds, and the rice is also served in a small bowl.

小林准备好米饭、鸡蛋、火腿和虾，但是找不到青豆。

Xiaolin prepared rice, eggs, ham, and shrimp, but couldn’t find any peas.

我带零食！

I'll bring snacks!

小雨，油放锅里，开中火。 好，开了。 闻着，闻着，像是要闻到花椒的麻味往鼻子里钻。 ...有一点点了! 好，再等十秒。 十秒到了! 现在，把辣椒粉倒进去，快点，别停手。 倒了倒了!!哇...奶奶，好香啊!! 对，就是这个味道。

Xiaoyu, put the oil in the pot and turn the heat to medium. Okay, it’s on. Keep sniffing, keep sniffing, as if you’re waiting for the numbing aroma of Sichuan pepper to creep into your nose. ...I can smell a little now! Good, wait another ten seconds. Ten seconds are up! Now pour in the chili powder, quickly, don’t stop. I’m pouring, I’m pouring!! Wow... Grandma, it smells so good!! Yes, that’s exactly the smell.

桌子上有鱼，有饺子还有很多好吃的东西。

On the table there was fish, there were dumplings and many other delicious things.

西村的人喜欢吃咸的豆腐脑，他们放酱油和辣椒。

People from West Village like to eat savory tofu pudding, they add soy sauce and chili.

第三天早上，陈浩端来一碗鸡汤，里面飘着淡淡的酒香。

On the morning of the third day, Chen Hao brought a bowl of chicken soup, with a faint scent of wine wafting from it.

竹子，还有包子！

Bamboo, and buns!

小时候被开水烫的！！

Burned by boiling water when he was little!!

她用的是婆家传下来的老方子：糯米、酒曲，还有一点秘密的药材，要发酵满三十天才能用。

She used an old recipe passed down from her husband's family: glutinous rice, wine yeast, and some secret medicinal herbs, which needed to ferment for a full thirty days before they could be used.

年糕又白又软，带着青菜和肉丝的香味。

The rice cake was white and soft, with the aroma of green vegetables and shredded meat.

面皮总是太干，一放进模具就裂开了。

The dough skin was always too dry; as soon as I put it in the mold, it cracked.

原来食堂以前常有人吃不完，最后只好把饭菜扔掉。

It turned out that people often couldn't finish their food at the cafeteria, and in the end had to throw it away.

每次有人吃到甜甜的桃子，他们都会想起夸父，那个曾经想为大家抓住太阳的巨人。

Every time someone eats a sweet peach, they all think of Kua Fu, that giant who once wanted to catch the sun for everyone.

可是他一下就说出来是鱼油……

But he immediately said it was fish oil...

上面写着各种配料的比例。

On it is written the ratios of various ingredients.

这家店开了三十年，汤包又好吃又便宜。

This shop has been open for thirty years, the soup dumplings are both delicious and cheap.

这是我用了十年的八角，别人都不知道我加这个。

This is the star anise I've used for ten years, others don't know I add this.

老马是兰州拉面师傅，做拉面三十年了。

Old Ma is Lanzhou pulled noodles master, making pulled noodles for thirty years.

她用的是婆家传下来的老方子：糯米、酒曲，还有一点秘密的药材，要发酵满三十天才能用。

She used an old recipe passed down from her husband's family: glutinous rice, wine yeast, and some secret medicinal herbs, which needed to ferment for a full thirty days before they could be used.

底料的那几页，花椒和辣椒的比例都看不清了。

The pages for the base ingredients, the ratios for Sichuan peppercorn and chili can't be seen clearly.

怪味？具体说说！

Strange smell? Tell me the details!

小林在扬州一家小饭店和爷爷一起做炒饭。

Xiaolin makes fried rice with his grandfather at a small restaurant in Yangzhou.

我父亲提过您，说厂里就您一个人，那年下大雪还给他家送过粮票。

My father mentioned you, saying that in the whole factory, you were the only one, who brought food stamps to his house during the heavy snow that year.

我给你炖排骨。

I'll stew ribs for you.

你居然抄我的牛肉面配方！

You actually copied my beef noodle recipe!

面馆的汤里有一勺猪油，味道很香。

In the noodle shop's soup there is a spoonful of lard, the smell is very fragrant.

底料的那几页，花椒和辣椒的比例都看不清了。

The pages for the base ingredients, the ratios for Sichuan peppercorn and chili can't be seen clearly.

桌上只剩最后一块宁波年糕。

There was only the last piece of Ningbo rice cake left on the table.

每天早上五点，陈伯在小店里打牛肉丸。

Every morning at five o'clock, Uncle Chen makes beef balls in his small shop.

东村的人喜欢吃甜的豆腐脑，他们放糖。

People from East Village like to eat sweet tofu pudding, they add sugar.

小美的外婆做辣椒油，很有名。

Xiao Mei's grandmother makes chili oil, is very famous.

陈伯的手，做了三十年牛肉丸的手，今天在发抖。

Uncle Chen's hands, hands that have made beef balls for thirty years, are shaking today.

位置很好，能看到后厨的门。

The location is good, can see the kitchen door.

早上她答应爸爸，中午买红烧肉饭回去。

In the morning, she promised her father that she would buy braised-pork rice and bring it home at noon.

爸爸一边教我怎么和面，怎么把馅料包进去，一边慢慢地讲起了更多爷爷的故事。

While Dad was teaching me how to knead the dough, and how to wrap the filling inside, he slowly started telling more of Grandpa's stories.

最后一单是麻辣烫，地址是阳光小区3号楼301。

The last order was Malatang (spicy hot pot), the address was Building 3, Apartment 301, Sunshine Community.

药房我来想办法多赚钱，我们可以卖一些新的药膳产品。

I'll find ways to make more money for the pharmacy, we can sell some new medicinal diet products.

圆圆喜欢吃什么？

What does Yuanyuan like to eat?

李明放下筷子，站起来给爸爸倒了一杯茶。

Li Ming put down his chopsticks and stood up and poured a cup of tea for Dad.

小美端给外婆尝。

Xiao Mei brought it to her grandmother to taste.

阿姨每天都在这里卖新鲜的蔬菜。

The auntie every day is always here selling fresh vegetables.

她每天煮一锅汤，叫孟婆汤。

Every day she cooks a pot of soup, called Meng Po Soup.

他看着我做的那些失败的月饼，忽然笑了："你这面皮和面的方法不对，难怪总是裂开。

He looked at those failed mooncakes I made and suddenly smiled: "The way you're kneading the dough for the skin is wrong, No wonder it always cracks.

我现在在家做饭呢

I am at home cooking right now

原来，阿明学到的不只是捏包子的手艺，还有老李那颗善良的心。

It turned out that what A-Ming had learned wasn't just the craft of making buns, but also Old Li's kind heart.

她用的是婆家传下来的老方子：糯米、酒曲，还有一点秘密的药材，要发酵满三十天才能用。

She used an old recipe passed down from her husband's family: glutinous rice, wine yeast, and some secret medicinal herbs, which needed to ferment for a full thirty days before they could be used.

她盛了一碗热腾腾的粥。

She scooped / ladled a bowl of steaming hot porridge .

像冻了很久的肉。

Like meat that has been frozen for a long time.

“我想，如果每天多蒸一笼包子，悄悄放在老赵伯常坐的那个墙角，他就不用饿肚子了。”

"I thought, if I steamed an extra tray of buns every day, and quietly placed them in the corner where Old Uncle Zhao usually sits, he wouldn't have to go hungry."

我给你炖排骨。

I'll stew ribs for you.

奶奶每天用陈醋做菜。

Grandma every day uses mature vinegar to cook dishes.

好,我说。你们听着,别打断我。文轩太公,是我婆婆的公公。那一年闹饥荒,村里快断粮了,他半夜出去,跟山那边的土匪换了粮食,救了全村人的命。可是后来有人查出来,他跟土匪头子是拜把兄弟,村里就传他通匪,说他丢祖宗的脸。族里长辈开会,决定把他那一代的名字全部划掉,不许后人再提,免得连累子孙,也怕"通匪"这个罪名传下去。其实……他没做错什么,他是为了救命才去的。可是那个年代,没人肯听这个理。

Okay, I'll tell you. Listen, and don't interrupt me. Grandpa Wenxuan was my mother-in-law's father-in-law. That year, there was a famine, and the village was running out of food. He went out in the middle of the night and traded with bandits on the other side of the mountain for grain, saving the lives of everyone in the village. But later, someone found out that he was sworn brothers with the bandit leader, and rumors spread in the village that he colluded with bandits, saying he disgraced the ancestors. The elders in the clan held a meeting and decided to cross out all the names of his generation and not allow future generations to mention them, to avoid implicating the descendants and also fearing that the crime of 'colluding with bandits' would be passed down. Actually... he didn't do anything wrong; he did it to save lives. But in that era, no one was willing to listen to reason.

熊猫，不许再偷吃了。

Panda, no more stealing food.

丈夫老李去世以后，她一个人管着这家小店，每天凌晨四点就起床，揉面、剁馅、蒸包子，风雨无阻。

After her husband Old Li passed away, she managed this small shop alone, getting up at four in the morning every day, kneading dough, chopping filling, steaming buns, regardless of the weather.

陈浩不好意思地笑了：“昨晚我趁她们都睡了，把两坛酒各舀了一勺，混在一起煮的。

Chen Hao smiled sheepishly: 'Last night, while they were both asleep,' I took a scoop from each of the two jars and boiled them together.

老马是兰州拉面师傅，做拉面三十年了。

Old Ma is Lanzhou pulled noodles master, making pulled noodles for thirty years.

里面有半份鱼、半份青菜和半份鸡蛋。

Inside were half a portion of fish, half a portion of vegetables, and half a portion of egg.

菜很香，很好吃。

The food is very fragrant, very delicious.

小满啊，那个汤，不是靠称，是靠闻。油热了之后，你要闻到香味，像是要飘出锅外了，那时候才能下辣椒。早一分钟不香，晚一分钟就苦了。这个东西，写在纸上没用，得让手记住。

Xiao Man, that soup, it's not about weighing, it's about smelling. After the oil is hot, you have to smell the fragrance, like it's about to float out of the pot, and only then can you add the chili. A minute too early and it's not fragrant, a minute too late and it's bitter. This kind of thing is useless written on paper, it has to be remembered by your hands.

年糕又白又软，带着青菜和肉丝的香味。

The rice cake was white and soft, with the aroma of green vegetables and shredded meat.

小雨，油放锅里，开中火。 好，开了。 闻着，闻着，像是要闻到花椒的麻味往鼻子里钻。 ...有一点点了! 好，再等十秒。 十秒到了! 现在，把辣椒粉倒进去，快点，别停手。 倒了倒了!!哇...奶奶，好香啊!! 对，就是这个味道。

Xiaoyu, put the oil in the pan and turn the heat to medium. Okay, it's on. Keep smelling, keep smelling, like you're waiting for that tingling Sichuan pepper aroma to work its way into your nose. ...I'm getting a little now! Good, wait ten more seconds. Ten seconds are up! Now pour in the chili powder, quick, don't stop. I'm pouring, I'm pouring!! Wow... Grandma, it smells so good!! Yes, that's exactly the smell.

这个方法很老，也很累，但是打出来的牛肉丸特别好吃，又弹又香。

This method is very old and very tiring, but the beef balls made this way are especially delicious, both bouncy and fragrant.

它很大，喜欢吃鸡和米。

It is very big, and it likes to eat chickens and rice.

西村的人喜欢吃咸的豆腐脑，他们放酱油和辣椒。

People from West Village like to eat savory tofu pudding, they add soy sauce and chili.

是啊，我还老骂你的面太咸。

Yeah, and I used to always complain your noodles were too salty.

皇帝吃了一口菜。

The emperor took a bite of the dish.

这个方法很老，也很累，但是打出来的牛肉丸特别好吃，又弹又香。

This method is very old and very tiring, but the beef balls made this way are especially delicious, both bouncy and fragrant.