大肠包小肠 (dàchángbāoxiǎocháng) · sausage-in-sausage

Measure Word

一份大肠包小肠 fèn

Meanings

1 sausage-in-sausage

Made with

About the dish

A grilled sticky-rice sausage split open like a bun and filled with a grilled, sweet Taiwanese pork sausage, garlic, pickles and sauce. 大肠 and 小肠 (large and small intestine) here just mean the two sausages. A Taiwanese snack.

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Examples

HSK 5

去台湾夜市一定要尝尝大肠包小肠。

Qù Táiwān yèshì yídìng yào chángchang dàchángbāoxiǎocháng.

When you visit a Taiwanese night market, you have to try sausage-in-sausage.

HSK 7-9

老板，给我来一份大肠包小肠加蒜。

Lǎobǎn, gěi wǒ lái yí fèn dàchángbāoxiǎocháng jiā suàn.

Boss, one sausage-in-sausage with extra garlic, please.

Tips

culture

A signature Taiwanese night-market snack (台湾夜市): a grilled pork sausage tucked inside a split, grilled glutinous-rice sausage like a hot dog, then loaded with garlic, pickled radish, sweet soy, and chili. The name is literal - 大肠 'large intestine' (the rice sausage's casing) wraps 小肠 'small intestine' (the pork sausage).

memory

Read it left to right as a sandwich: 大肠 [包] 小肠 = 'big intestine wraps little intestine'. 包 here means 'to wrap', the same character as in 包子 (bāozi, steamed bun).