牛肝菌 (niúgānjùn) · porcini mushroom

Measure Word

一朵牛肝菌 duǒ

Meanings

1 porcini mushroom
2 boletus (Boletus edulis and related)

About the ingredient

菌类 Mushrooms

Wild mushrooms with a thick stem and a fleshy cap, nutty and slightly meaty. Yunnan sells many kinds fresh in mushroom season and dried; some cause hallucinations unless fully cooked.

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

云南的牛肝菌非常有名。

Yúnnán de niúgānjùn fēicháng yǒumíng.

Yunnan's porcini mushrooms are very famous.

HSK 5

他点了一份牛肝菌炒饭。

Tā diǎn le yí fèn niúgānjùn chǎofàn.

He ordered a plate of porcini fried rice.

Tips

memory

Name reflects the mushroom's appearance: the spongy, pore-filled underside of the cap looks like the cross-section of a cow's liver - 牛肝 'cow liver' + 菌 'fungus'.