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sweet and sour chilli beef

Chinese translation: 甜酸辣子牛肉

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English term or phrase:sweet and sour chilli beef
Chinese translation:甜酸辣子牛肉
Entered by: lhn123

16:18 Apr 3, 2002
English to Chinese translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: sweet and sour chilli beef
Food
Dean Starr
甜酸辣牛肉
Explanation:
The answer is 甜酸辣牛肉(tian2suan1la4niu2rou4). 古老肉 (gu3lao3rou4) does not contain chilli.

Also 甜酸辣牛肉 is the name used by staff in Chinese restaurants. I used to work as a kitchen assistant!

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Note added at 2002-04-03 22:12:18 (GMT)
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BTW, to argat: 糖醋牛肉 is the proper name for a very well known Chinese dish, its variations include 糖醋里脊 and 糖醋排骨. However again it does not contain chilli and therefore cannot be used here.
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lhn123
Local time: 21:58
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Summary of answers provided
5 +7甜酸辣牛肉
lhn123
5古老肉/辣椒古老牛肉
Marta Argat
5茄汁咖哩牛肉
Tingting Hu
1 +3糖醋牛肉
Federica Pariani
4a question for Hai-ning Liu
Xiaoping Fu


  

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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +3
糖醋牛肉


Explanation:
tang2cu4 niu2rou4

tangcu = sweet and sour
niurou = beef

this is a common dish in China, but without chilli

or

糖醋辣牛肉

tang2cu4la4 niu2rou4

la4 = hot, spicy





Federica Pariani
China
Local time: 04:58
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in pair: 15

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Marta Argat: sorry, but this is gulaorou
2 hrs
agree  DavidYuan (X)
7 hrs
agree  Kevin Yang: Boy, smells like a Chinese restaurant here.I suggest you to add one more character. Now it becaomes "糖醋辣子牛肉".
11 hrs
  -> Thank you very much for the suggestion, and now it's dinner time! :-))
agree  zwcorp
13 hrs
agree  Yubing YANG (X): If it is a Sichuanese, will go as Kevin's suggestion
1 day 7 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
古老肉/辣椒古老牛肉


Explanation:
gu3lao3rou4 is a general name for the "sweet and sour" dishes in China.
To be more precise after a slash: la1jiao1 gu3lao3 niu2rou4
Tangcu will be a back translation: the name was adapted for Europeans as "sweeta and sour" and then we translate to Chinese their own food name as a foreign name!

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Note added at 2002-04-03 19:14:04 (GMT)
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For the refference you may use any menu @ the Chinese restaurants even in Europe

Marta Argat
Local time: 23:58
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Scott Li: I wonder about the above suggestion as 古老肉 usually use pork meat instead of beef.
8 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
甜酸辣牛肉


Explanation:
The answer is 甜酸辣牛肉(tian2suan1la4niu2rou4). 古老肉 (gu3lao3rou4) does not contain chilli.

Also 甜酸辣牛肉 is the name used by staff in Chinese restaurants. I used to work as a kitchen assistant!

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Note added at 2002-04-03 22:12:18 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

BTW, to argat: 糖醋牛肉 is the proper name for a very well known Chinese dish, its variations include 糖醋里脊 and 糖醋排骨. However again it does not contain chilli and therefore cannot be used here.

lhn123
Local time: 21:58
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Xiaoping Fu
2 hrs
agree  Scott Li: this dish name sounds strange to me but only the above suggestion fits the source text.
3 hrs
agree  ecindy
3 hrs
agree  Sunshine Wang
4 hrs
agree  Li-chuan Yen
4 hrs
agree  Chinexpert
10 hrs
agree  hjl
13 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
茄汁咖哩牛肉


Explanation:
茄汁咖哩牛肉

Tingting Hu
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 8
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5 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
a question for Hai-ning Liu


Explanation:

我认为您的翻译与这里的与原文最吻合。既然您提到在餐馆工作过，并知道这道菜，我想向请教一下：

这是真正的中国菜还是模仿其他国家（例如韩国）的菜式适应北美市场脱化出来的新菜式？因为，正如Euro 指出的，中国的糖醋类是用猪肉或鱼类，不用牛肉。而且，糖醋类是不用辣椒的。川菜虽有酸甜辣共用的做法，但要用很多的花椒和其他调料，属于所谓的怪味类菜式。

国外的中餐馆为了适应当地人的口味，作了许多本地化的功夫，这是否其中一例？

谢谢！


Xiaoping Fu
Canada
Local time: 13:58
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in pair: 2566
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