乌鱼蛋汤, photo 1 of 2
乌鱼蛋汤, photo 2 of 2
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Photo credit

Photo
Hot and Sour Cuttlefish Roe Soup (for one)
By
Zheng Zhou
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

Photo credit

Photo
Hot and Sour Cuttlefish Roe Soup
By
Zheng Zhou
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Changes
Cropped and resized

乌鱼蛋汤

烏魚蛋湯
wūyúdàn tāng
noun Mild

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 cuttlefish egg soup

About the dish

鲁菜 Shandong · 汤 Soup

A thick soup of thin, coin-shaped slices of salted and dried cuttlefish egg gland, soured with vinegar and made hot with white pepper, not chili. 乌鱼蛋 is not roe. A Shandong dish.

Usually contains shellfish

Examples

HSK 5
Wūyúdàn tāng shì yí dào suānlà kǒuwèi de Shāndōng tāng.
Cuttlefish egg soup is a sour and peppery Shandong soup.
HSK 6
Zài Qīngdǎo chīfàn, zuìhòu lái yì wǎn wūyúdàn tāng zhèng héshì.
When you eat out in Qingdao, a bowl of cuttlefish egg soup is just right to finish the meal.

Tips

usage
乌鱼 here is the cuttlefish, and 乌鱼蛋 is not roe but the female cuttlefish's egg-producing gland, salted and dried. It comes apart into thin, coin-like slices when cooked.

Stroke Order

乌 wū
鱼 yú
蛋 dàn
汤 tāng