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冷吃兔

lěngchītù
noun Very hot

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 cold-eaten spicy rabbit

About the dish

川菜 Sichuan · 凉菜 Cold dish

Diced rabbit on the bone, fried in plenty of oil with dried chilies and Sichuan pepper, then cooled and eaten at room temperature, often with sesame seeds. Very hot and numbing, firm and chewy, with small bones.

Usually contains sesame

Examples

HSK 4
Tā cóng Zìgòng huílai, gěi wǒmen dài le jǐ dài lěngchītù.
He came back from Zigong and brought us a few bags of cold-eaten spicy rabbit.
HSK 7-9
Lěngchītù shì rè zhe zuò, liáng zhe chī de, yòu má yòu là.
Cold-eaten spicy rabbit is cooked hot and eaten cold, and it is both numbing and spicy.

Tips

usage
冷吃, "eaten cold", is a Zigong style: meat fried with chilies and served at room temperature, so it keeps well and travels as a snack. 冷吃牛肉 is made the same way.

Stroke Order

冷 lěng
吃 chī
兔 tù