| 凉拌面 |
liáng bàn miàn |
cold noodles in sauce |
| 凉 |
Liáng |
the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西凉 (400-421) |
| 凉 |
liáng |
cool / cold |
| 凉 |
liàng |
to let sth cool down |
| 凉拌 |
liáng bàn |
to dress cold food with sauce / (slang) there's not much you can do about it (wordplay using 拌 instead of its homophone 办) |
| 拌 |
bàn |
to mix / to mix in / to toss (a salad) |
| 拌面 |
bàn miàn |
noodles served with soy sauce, sesame butter etc |
| 面 |
miàn |
face / side / surface / aspect / top / classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc |
| 面 |
miàn |
variant of 面 |
| 面 |
miàn |
flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless |