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菜肴

cài yáo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 菜餚

菜肴 (cài yáo) means "vegetable and meat dishes; dish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 菜肴 means

1. vegetable and meat dishes; dish

The characters in 菜肴

• 菜càivegetable; greens; dish (of food); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor
• 肴yáomeat dishes; mixed viands

Example sentences

• 希望你喜欢黎巴嫩菜肴。
  I hope you like Lebanese food.
• 我肯定你会喜欢我们今晚的菜肴。
  Wǒ kěndìng nǐ huì xǐhuan wǒmen jīnwǎn de càiyáo.
  I'm sure you'll love what we have on the menu tonight.
• 上海这个地方，海内海外什么菜肴都有。
  Shànghǎi zhège dìfang, hǎinèi hǎiwài shénme càiyáo dōu yǒu.
  Shanghai has everything under the sun when it comes to food.
• 上海这个地方，海内海外什幺菜肴都有。
  Shanghai has everything under the sun when it comes to food.
• 七个月前，一家名为苏克埃尔塔耶布的黎巴嫩社会企业的厨师开始教这些妇女新的烹饪技能，包括萨姆克哈拉 (在鱼里塞满松子、香菜和辣椒酱) 和马阿穆尔饼干等传统菜肴。
  Seven months ago, chefs from a Lebanese social enterprise named Souk el Tayeb began teaching the women new cooking skills, including such traditional dishes as samke harra — fish stuffed with pine nuts, coriander and chili sauce — and ma'amoul cookies.

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