{"id":182,"date":"2010-01-26T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:41:01","slug":"learning-to-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/learning-to-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I saw a vendor selling <strong>\u9c7c\u7fc5<\/strong> (sharkfin) at exorbitant prices at a market in Saigon.\u00a0 My friend and I decided that although we couldn&#8217;t afford shark fin, we should still learn a little about Vietnamese <strong>\u70f9\u996a<\/strong> (cuisine).\u00a0 We took a cooking class, and it became clear as soon as I made my <strong>\u6c99\u62c9<\/strong> (salad) that I wasn&#8217;t too concerned with the cooking concepts of <strong>\u8272\u9999\u5473<\/strong> (color, fragrance, and flavor).\u00a0 By chance, I was able to make a very <strong>\u6b63\u5b97<\/strong> (authentic) tasting <strong>\u9178\u751c<\/strong> (sweet and sour) soup.\u00a0 Perhaps the next step will be to learn how to cook some good Mekong <strong>\u9c87\u9c7c<\/strong> (catfish)!<\/p>\n<p>\u9c7c\u7fc5 yu2chi4 &#8211; sharkfin<br \/>\n\u70f9\u996a peng1ren4 &#8211; cuisine<br \/>\n\u6c99\u62c9 sha1la1 &#8211; salad<br \/>\n\u8272 se4 &#8211; color (Chinese cuisine is\u00a0known to focus on &#8216;color, fragrance, and flavor&#8217;)<br \/>\n\u9999 xiang1 &#8211; fragrance\/fragrant<br \/>\n\u5473 wei4 &#8211; flavor (in its single-character form)<br \/>\n\u6b63\u5b97 zheng4zong1 &#8211; authentic\/original<br \/>\n\u9178\u751c suan1tian2 &#8211; sweet and sour<br \/>\n\u9c87\u9c7c nian2yu2 &#8211; catfish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I saw a vendor selling \u9c7c\u7fc5 (sharkfin) at exorbitant prices at a market in Saigon.\u00a0 My friend and I decided that although we couldn&#8217;t afford shark fin, we should still learn a little about Vietnamese \u70f9\u996a (cuisine).\u00a0 We took a cooking class, and it became clear as soon as I made my&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/learning-to-cook\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}