Joyful Reunion 2012
饮食男女-好远又好近
Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, the present day. Master chef Tang Shizhe (Kenneth Tsang) tells his two daughters, the careerist Wa'er (Huo Siyan) and teenage Xiaolan (Jiang Mengjie), that he has decided to sell his upscale vegetarian restaurant, the centre of his life for 30 years.
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Vocabulary
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| 食材 食材 | (food) ingredient | |
| 享用 享用 | to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of) | |
| 菇 菇 | mushrooms | |
| 卤 滷 | salt | |
| 总公司 總公司 | parent company; head office | |
| 瑜 瑜 | flawless gem or jewel | |
| 董 董 | direct, supervise; surname | |
| 不方便 不方便 | inconvenience; inconvenient | |
| 待会 待會 | wait a minute; stop a while | |
| 桃花源 桃花源 | the Peach Blossom Spring, a hidden land of peace and prosperity; utopia | |
| 柔 柔 | soft; gentle, pliant | |
| 屈 屈 | bend, flex; bent, crooked; crouch | |
| 膝 厀 | knee | |
| 踞 踞 | crouch, squat; sit, occupy | |
| 恋人 戀人 | lover; sweetheart | |
| 自恋 自戀 | narcissism | |
| 女佣 女傭 | (female) maid | |
| 闭嘴 閉嘴 | Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 | |
| 大庭广众 大庭廣眾 | (idiom) in public; in front of everyone; openly (typically preceded by and followed by) | |
| 计程车 計程車 | (Tw) taxi; cab | |
| 拜 拜 | bow, worship | |
| 果蔬 果蔬 | fruit and vegetables | |
| 赚得 賺得 | to earn | |
| 柠檬 檸檬 | lemon | |
| 开胃菜 開胃菜 | starter; appetizer | |
| 泉水 泉水 | spring water | |
| 黄豆 黃豆 | soybean | |
| 益 益 | profit, benefit; advantage | |
| 青椒 青椒 | Capsicum annuum; green pepper | |
| 豆皮 豆皮 | dried beancurd (tofu) | |
| 大豆 大豆 | soybean | |
| 豆干 豆乾 | variant of | |
| 一宿 一宿 | one night's stay | |
| 太监 太監 | court eunuch; palace eunuch | |
| 两样 兩樣 | not the same; different | |
| 跪下 跪下 | to kneel down | |
| 按摩师 按摩師 | masseur; massage therapist | |
| 腻 膩 | greasy, oily, dirty; smooth | |
| 农家乐 農家樂 | a property providing rural accommodation (farm stay, boutique hotel etc) | |
| 蔬 蔬 | vegetables, greens | |
| 胡吃海喝 胡吃海喝 | to eat and drink gluttonously; to pig out | |
| 哩 哩 | mile | |
| 品味 品味 | to sample; to taste; to appreciate; one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc); good taste | |
| 穆 穆 | majestic, solemn, reverent; calm | |
| 禅 禪 | Chan/Zen | |
| 洪 洪 | vast, immense; flood, deluge | |
| 祸 禍 | misfortune, calamity, disaster | |
| 莫 莫 | do not (literary) | |
| 还不如 還不如 | to be better off...; might as well... | |
| 自认 自認 | to believe (sth in relation to oneself); to regard oneself as; to acknowledge (sth in relation to oneself); to resign oneself to |