方太教煮餸——整定

Chinese

		Mrs. (Lisa) Fong	teach; teaching; religion	to cook; to boil	a dish served to accompany rice or other staple food		to make in advance; predestined
trad. (方太教煮餸——整定)		方太	教	煮	餸	——	整定
simp. (方太教煮𩠌——整定)		方太	教	煮	𩠌	——	整定
Literally: “Mrs. Fong teaches cooking dishes - it's made in advance”.

Etymology

Lisa Fong is a television personality who hosts cooking shows, in which she often moves on to the next step with an identical dish that is prepared in advance, due to time constraints. Hence her method of teaching cookery is described as 整定 (zing² ding⁶, “pre-made, prepared in advance”), which has another sense of “predestined; preordained”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong¹ taai^3-2 gaau³ zyu² sung³, zing² ding⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong¹ taai^3-2 gaau³ zyu² sung³, zing² ding⁶
    • Yale: fōng táai gaau jyú sung, jíng dihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong¹ taai^3-2 gaau³ dzy² sung³, dzing² ding⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong¹ tai^3-2 gao³ ju² sung³, jing² ding⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ⁵⁵ tʰaːi̯³³⁻³⁵ kaːu̯³³ t͡syː³⁵ sʊŋ³³ t͡sɪŋ³⁵ tɪŋ²²/

Idiom

方太教煮餸——整定

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) predestined; preordained