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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| 界 界 | (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm | |
| 骄傲 驕傲 | pride; arrogance; conceited; proud of sth | |
| 贡献 貢獻 | to contribute; to dedicate; to devote; contribution | |
| 孤独 孤獨 | lonely; solitary | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 愉快 愉快 | cheerful; cheerily; delightful; pleasant; pleasantly; pleasing; happy; delighted | |
| 大赛 大賽 | grand contest | |
| 本身 本身 | itself; in itself; per se | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 能否 能否 | whether or not; can it or can't it; is it possible? | |
| 仪式 儀式 | ceremony | |
| 踢 踢 | to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) | |
| 法庭 法庭 | court of law | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 娱乐 娛樂 | to entertain; to amuse; entertainment; recreation; amusement; hobby; fun; joy | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 爆 爆 | to explode or burst; to quick fry or quick boil | |
| 最佳 最佳 | optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc) | |
| 剑 劍 | double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword | |
| 说实话 說實話 | to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 错过 錯過 | to miss (train, opportunity etc) | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 利 利 | sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit | |
| 权 權 | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary | |
| 赛 賽 | to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 投票 投票 | to vote; vote | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 最终 最終 | final; ultimate | |
| 哇 哇 | Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 超 超 | to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super- | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 装神弄鬼 裝神弄鬼 | lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus | Idiom |
| 神通广大 神通廣大 | (idiom) to possess great magical power; to possess remarkable abilities | Idiom |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 胆肥 膽肥 | (coll.) bold; brazen; to have a lot of nerve | Colloquialism |
| 秒 秒 | second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly | Colloquialism |
| 海胆 海膽 | sea urchin | |
| 濠 濠 | moat, trench, ditch | |
| 菜品 菜品 | culinary dish | |
| 澜 瀾 | overflowing; waves, ripples |