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Ameixa xaponesa
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Lameiro
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Ameixas do Carril - Vilagarcía de Arousa-27
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Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez
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Freshippo braised clams in juice
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Fumikas Sagisavas
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花蛤

huāgé
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Manila clam
  2. 2 Japanese littleneck clam
  3. 3 clam

About the ingredient

水产 Fish and seafood

A small clam, 4 to 5 cm across, with a ridged oval shell, the most common and cheapest clam in Chinese markets. Food stalls stir-fry it with garlic and chili; soak it in salted water first so it spits out its sand.

Contains shellfish

Also called  花甲

Examples

HSK 3
花蛤又便宜又好吃。
Huāgé yòu piányi yòu hǎochī.
Manila clams are cheap and tasty.
HSK 7-9
晚上我们在大排档点了一盘炒花蛤。
Wǎnshang wǒmen zài dàpáidàng diǎn le yì pán chǎo huāgé.
In the evening we ordered a plate of stir-fried clams at a food stall.

Tips

mistakes
蛤 is read gé here, as in 蛤蜊 (clam), not há as in 蛤蟆 (toad). In some places the clam is written 花甲, so 炒花甲 means stir-fried clams.

Stroke Order

花 huā
蛤 gé