马肉 (mǎròu) · horse meat

Meanings

1 horse meat

About the ingredient

Dark red, lean meat with a faintly sweet taste and yellowish fat. Hard to find in most of China; Xinjiang smokes it and makes it into sausage, and Guilin serves it sliced thin on rice noodles.

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Examples

HSK 6

马肉的脂肪含量比牛肉低。

Mǎròu de zhīfáng hánliàng bǐ niúròu dī.

Horse meat has a lower fat content than beef.

HSK 7-9

新疆和广西部分地区有吃马肉的传统。

Xīnjiāng hé Guǎngxī bùfen dìqū yǒu chī mǎròu de chuántǒng.

Parts of Xinjiang and Guangxi have a tradition of eating horse meat.

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culture

Horse meat is uncommon across most of China but is regional fare in Kazakh and Kyrgyz Xinjiang (think 熏马肉, smoked horse meat) and in Guangxi 桂林's 马肉米粉. It's lean, dark, and gamier than beef.