Cook Up a Storm 2017
决战食神
An international culinary competition becomes a battleground between rival cooks, one famous for his Cantonese street food and the other a Michelin-starred chef trained in France. But their rivalry takes an unexpected turn when they discover a common foe and combine their skills in a fusion of East and West.
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Vocabulary
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| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 心愿 心願 | cherished desire; dream; craving; wish; aspiration | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 选拔 選拔 | to select the best | |
| 厨师 廚師 | cook; chef | |
| 本土 本土 | one's native country; native; local; metropolitan territory | |
| 师父 師父 | used for 师傅 (in Taiwan); master; qualified worker | |
| 高峰 高峰 | peak; summit; height | |
| 哎哟 哎喲 | hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise | |
| 粥 粥 | used in 荤粥 | |
| 杰出 傑出 | outstanding; distinguished; remarkable; prominent; illustrious | |
| 总监 總監 | head; director (of an organizational unit); (police) commissioner; inspector-general; rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration | |
| 舌头 舌頭 | tongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information | |
| 不仅仅 不僅僅 | not only; not just | |
| 上台 上台 | to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater) | |
| 融合 融合 | a mixture; an amalgam; fusion; welding together; to be in harmony with (nature); to harmonize with; to fit in | |
| 犯规 犯規 | to break the rules; an illegality; a foul | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 用心 用心 | motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful | |
| 难忘 難忘 | unforgettable | |
| 阴影 陰影 | (lit. and fig.) shadow | |
| 发起 發起 | to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc); to start; to propose sth (for the first time) | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 打造 打造 | to create; to build; to develop; to forge (of metal) | |
| 掌声 掌聲 | applause | |
| 串 串 | to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across | |
| 沿 沿 | along; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on; to trim (a border with braid, tape etc); border; edge | |
| 抱歉 抱歉 | to be sorry; to feel apologetic; sorry! | |
| 融入 融入 | to blend into; to integrate; to assimilate; to merge | |
| 元素 元素 | element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element; (math.) element (member of a set) | |
| 酱 醬 | thick paste of fermented soybean; marinated in soy paste; paste; jam | |
| 知名 知名 | well-known; famous | |
| 同一 同一 | identical; the same | |
| 混合 混合 | to mix; to blend; hybrid; composite | |
| 参赛 參賽 | to compete; to take part in a competition | |
| 天下 天下 | land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule | |
| 当成 當成 | to consider as; to take to be | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 主角 主角 | leading role; lead; protagonist | |
| 王子 王子 | prince; son of a king | |
| 屏幕 屏幕 | screen (TV, computer or movie) | |
| 扎 扎 | used in 挣扎 | |
| 本地 本地 | local; this locality | |
| 无关 無關 | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) | |
| 撑 撐 | to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support | |
| 大师 大師 | great master; master | |
| 创意 創意 | creative; creativity | |
| 档 檔 | official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves; slot; gap; crosspiece; classifier for crosspieces; classifier for events, affairs etc; Taiwan pr. [dǎng] | |
| 主持人 主持人 | TV or radio presenter; host; anchor |