牛肚 (niúdǔ) · beef tripe, ox tripe

Meanings

1 beef tripe
2 ox tripe

About the ingredient

A cow's stomachs, sold cleaned as separate parts that look and cook differently. Thick, plain tripe is braised in spiced liquid or stewed until soft; the thin, leafy part is dipped briefly in hot pot.

Used in 1 dish

夫妻肺片 fūqīfèipiàn

Characters

tripe; stomach as food

Examples

HSK 5

这家火锅店的牛肚很新鲜。

Zhè jiā huǒguōdiàn de niúdǔ hěn xīnxiān.

The beef tripe at this hot pot restaurant is very fresh.

HSK 7-9

牛肚口感脆，很有嚼劲，吃火锅的时候少不了它。

Niúdǔ kǒugǎn cuì, hěn yǒu jiáojìn, chī huǒguō de shíhou shǎobuliǎo tā.

Beef tripe is crunchy and chewy, and no hot pot meal is complete without it.

Tips

mistakes

肚 is read dǔ when it means an animal's stomach cooked as food: 牛肚, 猪肚. The belly itself, of a person or an animal, is 肚, as in 肚子.

usage

Hot pot menus name the parts of a cow's stomach separately: 毛肚 has a shaggy lining, 金钱肚 is honeycomb tripe, and 牛百叶 has thin, leaf-like folds. All of them are 牛肚.