Chinese Food Guide
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What can you expect to eat in a real Chinese restaurant in Beijing ? Well, for the most part, its nothing like the Chinese food you've come to expect in your local Chinese take-out back home. This is the real deal. However, most menus are completely in Chinese and daunting even for someone who's studied Chinese for many years. To help you out, we've prepared this handy guide for your convenience. You can memorize the pronunciation using our audio clips, or just print out, cut into pieces and hand to your waiter.
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(la4 zi ji1 ding1) |
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Hot spicy diced chicken. Green peppers and boneless chicken in a hot gravy. |
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(gong1 bao4 ji1 ding1) |
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Hot spicy diced chicken. Red peppers, boneless chicken with roasted peanuts in a hot gravy. (usually not quite as spicy as Lazi Jiding) |

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(la4 zi ji1) |
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Really spicy, deep fried, bite sized chunks of chicken including bone. Often so much bone that there is not much meat content left, but varies from place to place. |

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(hao2 you2 niu2 liu3) |
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Strips of beef in an oyster sauce. Not usually spicy at all. Sometimes has vegetables included. |

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(tie3 ban3 niu2 liu3) |

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Strips of beef brought to the table on a sizzling hot iron platter. Sometimes pepper flavored, sometimes has a tomato flavor. |

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(jing1 jiang4 rou4 si1) |
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Pork shredded and cooked in a Beijing special sauce. Served with some kind of tofu sheets to make little parcels with. |

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(zha2 ji1 pai2) |
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Flattened, boneless chicken breast, bread crumbed and deep fried. A bit like what the Australian's call a chicken schnitzel. |

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(bo1 cai4 chao3 ji1 dan4) |
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Spinach cooked with egg. |

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(you2 mai4 cai4) |

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Another kind of green leafy vegetable, cooked plain. |

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(ji1 dan4 chao3 mi3 fan4) |
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Egg fried rice.
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(song1 ren2 yu4 mi3) |
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Sweet corn and pine nuts.
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