{"id":9248,"date":"2013-08-08T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:26:08","slug":"at-the-market-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/at-the-market-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Market – Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"

An important part of your daily life is going to the market<\/strong> (\u5e02\u573a – sh\u00ec ch\u01ceng) to buy groceries. Of course, doing this in China can be difficult if you’re not a native speaker – you can’t understand the labels, you don’t know to ask for what you want, and you find things you’ve never seen before and can’t quite identify.<\/p>\n

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To make life easier for you, and to ensure that you don’t end up just eating kung pao chicken<\/strong> (\u5bab\u4fdd\u9e21\u4e01 – g\u014dng b\u01ceo j\u012b d\u012bng) every day, I’m going to write a short series of posts that provides tons of useful vocabulary for grocery shopping in China. For the first post, here are 25 Chinese words for vegetables<\/strong> (\u852c\u83dc – sh\u016b c\u00e0i):<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Study those words, and then get out there and hit the market or a restaurant to practice! If that’s not an option for you, try answering these questions at home in Chinese:<\/p>\n