{"id":275,"date":"2010-03-17T02:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=275"},"modified":"2010-03-17T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:40:16","slug":"what-do-people-eat-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/what-do-people-eat-for-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do People Eat for Lunch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When lunchtime in China rolls around, what do people go to eat?\u00a0 Up north, many choose to go out for <strong>\u997a\u5b50<\/strong> (dumplings) or <strong>\u9762\u6761<\/strong> (noodles) at a local <strong>\u9762\u9986<\/strong> (noodle restaurant).\u00a0 Other people might go to a nearby street stall and grab some <strong>\u996d<\/strong> (rice) with different selections of <strong>\u8364\u83dc<\/strong> (meat dishes) and <strong>\u7d20\u83dc<\/strong> (vegetable dishes).\u00a0 People who can&#8217;t get away from their desks may resort to <strong>\u53eb\u5916\u5356<\/strong> (ordering delivery), while workers at large corporations will make their way down to the building&#8217;s <strong>\u98df\u5802<\/strong> (cafeteria).\u00a0 Employers, keep an eye on your employees who go for <strong>\u5feb\u9910<\/strong>, as they may be rushing back to their desks to <strong>\u5077\u83dc <\/strong>(steal vegetables &#8211; refers to playing online games).<\/p>\n<p>\u997a\u5b50 jiao3zi (technically pronunciation is jiao2(3)zi3, but the addition of \u5b50 to single-word nouns usually leads to a neutral pronunciation of \u5b50)<br \/>\n\u9762\u6761 mian4tiao2 &#8211; noodles<br \/>\n\u9762\u9986 mian4guan3 &#8211; noodle restaurant<br \/>\n\u996d fan4 &#8211; rice<br \/>\n\u8364\u83dc hun1cai4 &#8211; meat dish<br \/>\n\u7d20\u83dc su4cai4 &#8211; vegetable dish<br \/>\n\u53eb jiao4 &#8211; call, order<br \/>\n\u5916\u5356 wai4mai4 &#8211; delivery food<br \/>\n\u98df\u5802 shi2tang2 &#8211; cafeteria\/dining hall<br \/>\n\u5feb\u9910 kuai4can1 &#8211; fast food<br \/>\n\u5077\u83dc tou1cai4 &#8211; lit. steal vegetables. this comes from <strong>\u5f00\u5fc3\u519c\u573a <\/strong>(kai1xin1nong2chang3 &#8211; happy farm, a Chinese predecessor to the popular online game Farmville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When lunchtime in China rolls around, what do people go to eat?\u00a0 Up north, many choose to go out for \u997a\u5b50 (dumplings) or \u9762\u6761 (noodles) at a local \u9762\u9986 (noodle restaurant).\u00a0 Other people might go to a nearby street stall and grab some \u996d (rice) with different selections of \u8364\u83dc (meat dishes) and \u7d20\u83dc (vegetable&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/what-do-people-eat-for-lunch\/\">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":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}