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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Hot Pot, Half and Half

Go for hot pot with Little Deng: be treated, say you cannot take much spice, order a half-and-half pot and mild, learn the seven up, eight down of tripe, say your mouth has gone numb, hear that numb is not spicy, and say the spice has made you cry.

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THE STORY

A hot pot restaurant down a lane behind the People's Park, Little Deng ordering for the table while the pot comes to the boil, red on one side and white on the other.

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火锅！huǒguōhot pot, word for word fire pot
走， 请 你们 吃 火锅！zǒu, qǐng nǐmen chī huǒguōCome on, hot pot's on me!
我 不 太 能 吃 辣。wǒ bú tài néng chī làI can't take much spice.
我 第 一 次 吃 火锅。wǒ dì yī cì chī huǒguōIt's my first time eating hot pot.
鸳鸯 锅。yuānyang guōa half-and-half pot, word for word a mandarin-duck pot
那 点 鸳鸯 锅 吧。nà diǎn yuānyang guō baThen let's order a half-and-half pot.
微辣。wēilàmild, word for word slightly spicy
我 要 微辣。wǒ yào wēilàI'll have mild.
不 要 太 辣。bú yào tài làNot too spicy.
毛肚。máodùtripe, word for word hairy belly

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