New Practical Chinese Reader Lesson 5.53 - Page 2

pockmarked grandma's bean curd

bean curd

to smash; to pug

broken; fragmentary

salted; salty

character

region; district

roughly; more or less

to relate to; to have something to do with; related; relavent

to fry

preserved dry bean curd with a strong, distinctive flavor

smelly; foul

great personage; big shot; VIP

figure; personage

by every possible means; by hook or by crook

unexpectedly

to give rise to; to lead to

railway carriage

to protest

cheese

mostly; for the most part

to smell

to cover; to hide

nose

Shanxi (Province)

Taiyuan (city in Shanxi Province)

Liaoning (Province)

Suzhou (city in Jiangsu Province)

Wuxi (city in Jiangsu Province)

Guangxi (Autonomous Region)

Guangdong (Province)

Guizhou (Province)

Zhejiang (Province)

Hebei (Province)

Fujian (Province)

Hankou (city in Hubei Province)

Changsha (city in Hunan Province)

Huogongdian (name of a restaurant)

Nanjing (city in Jiangsu Province)

peacock

courtesy; etiquette

to offer; to dedicate

a bowl-shaped compressed mass of tea leaves

earthen pot

boom

courtesy; politeness

honey

walnut meat

rich; abundant

Chinese cinnamon; cassia bark