羊杂 (yángzá) · lamb / mutton offal (mixed sheep innards)

Meanings

1 lamb / mutton offal (mixed sheep innards)
2 short for 羊杂汤 yángzátāng (lamb-offal stew)

About the ingredient

A sheep's offal: stomach, intestines, heart, liver, lungs and kidneys, cleaned thoroughly and boiled. It is cut up and served in broth as lamb offal soup, a cheap, everyday food in the north.

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

冬天来一碗羊杂汤最暖和。

Dōngtiān lái yì wǎn yángzátāng zuì nuǎnhuo.

A bowl of lamb-offal soup is the warmest thing in winter.

HSK 6

山西的羊杂割很有名。

Shānxī de yángzágē hěn yǒumíng.

Shanxi's chopped lamb-offal stew is famous.

Tips

culture

羊杂 (head, heart, liver, lungs, tripe, intestines) is a winter staple across northern China and Inner Mongolia. Local variants include Shanxi's 羊杂割 and Inner Mongolia's 羊杂碎 - usually a peppery soup eaten with flatbread or shaobing.