day 29in the kitchen

in the kitchen

Talk about cooking and taste (ingredients, flavours, bland or sweet) and say how one thing slid into another with V著V著就……了.

today’s words

• 材料 cáiliào · ingredients, material
• 倒 dǎo · fall over, topple; go bust
• 剩 shèng · be left (over)
• 月餅 yuèbǐng · mooncake
• 蓋 gài · cover; build
• 蔬菜 shūcài · vegetables
• 玉米 yùmǐ · corn, maize
• 淡 dàn · light, bland, weak
• 口味 kǒuwèi · flavour, taste (what you like)
• 燒 shāo · burn; cook, braise; boil
• 咬 yǎo · bite
• 廚師 chúshī · chef, cook
• 中餐 zhōngcān · Chinese food
• 觀念 guānniàn · idea, way of thinking
• 架 jià · (measure word for planes, pianos, cameras)
• 刻 kè · carve; a quarter (of an hour)
• 破壞 pòhuài · damage, destroy, spoil
• 水平 shuǐpíng · level, standard

sentences

• 我們聊著聊著就忘了時間。 · We chatted and chatted and lost track of time.
• 家裡還剩了很多月餅。 · There are still lots of mooncakes left at home.
• 別讓小事破壞了好心情。 · Don’t let little things spoil a good mood.
• 做這道菜的材料很簡單：玉米和一些蔬菜。 · The ingredients for this dish are simple: corn and a few vegetables.
• 小心，杯子倒了！ · Careful, the cup’s fallen over!