烹 饪 pēng rèn cooking / culinary arts 烹 调 pēng tiáo to cook / cooking 做 菜 zuò cài to cook / cooking 炊 事 chuī shì cooking 配 方 pèi fāng prescription / cooking recipe / formulation / completing the square (to solve quadratic equation, math.) 料 理 liào lǐ to arrange / to handle / to cook / cuisine / art of cooking 加 盖 jiā gài to seal (with an official stamp) / to stamp / (fig.) to ratify / to put a lid on (a cooking pot) / to cap / to build an extension or additional story 配 料 pèi liào ingredients (in a cooking recipe) / to mix materials according to directions 厨 艺 chú yì cooking skills / culinary talent 炒 菜 chǎo cài to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish 料 酒 liào jiǔ cooking wine 家 常 菜 jiā cháng cài home cooking 主 料 zhǔ liào main ingredients (in a cooking recipe) 灶 具 zào jù stove / cooker / (dialect) cooking utensils 文 火 wén huǒ small flame (when cooking, simmering etc) 烧 火 shāo huǒ to light a fire for cooking 炊 具 chuī jù cooking utensils / cookware / cooker 禁 烟 jìn yān to ban smoking / to quit smoking / to prohibit cooking / prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729) 铁 锅 tiě guō iron cooking pot 五 香 wǔ xiāng five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty) 豆 腐 皮 dòu fu pí tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu) 食 油 shí yóu cooking oil 便 饭 biàn fàn an ordinary meal / simple home cooking 食 法 shí fǎ cooking method 掌 勺 zhǎng sháo to be in charge of the cooking / to be the chef / head cook / chef 清 油 qīng yóu vegetable cooking oil 大 黄 鱼 dà huáng yú Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking 地 沟 油 dì gōu yóu illegally recycled waste cooking oil 鼎 ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes 爪 (coll.) foot of an animal or bird / (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc 烹 cooking method / to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China) 鬲 ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs 鼎 铛 玉 石 dǐng chēng yù shí lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom) / fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine 连 锅 端 lián guō duān to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out 回 锅 油 huí guō yóu reused cooking oil 天 妇 罗 tiān fù luó tempura / deep-fried cooking / also called 甜不辣[tian2 bu4 la4] 治 大 国 若 烹 小 鲜 zhì dà guó ruò pēng xiǎo xiān ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom) / effective government requires minimal intervention 炊 器 chuī qì cooking vessels (archaeology) 煮 法 zhǔ fǎ cooking method 粉 芡 fěn qiàn cooking starch / pasty mixture of starch and water 酥 松 油 脂 sū sōng yóu zhī shortening (fat used in cooking cakes) 食 物 油 shí wù yóu cooking oil / food oil 照 烧 zhào shāo teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique) 山 萮 菜 shān yú cài wasabi (Eutrema wasabi Maxim), a kind of fern used in Japanese cooking 煮 锅 zhǔ guō cooking pot 做 饭 用 燃 气 zuò fàn yòng rán qì cooking gas 烹 饪 燃 料 pēng rèn rán liào cooking fuel 厨 房 拖 车 cooking trailer 罉 (dialect) cooking pot / variant of 鐺|铛[cheng1] 锅 灶 guō zào stove / cooking burner 纸 火 锅 zhǐ huǒ guō paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table) 屉 子 tì zi drawer / stackable cooking vessel / woven mat on a bed frame or chair / woven window screen 火 色 huǒ sè (dialect) intensity of the fire (in cooking, kiln firing etc) 刁 斗 diāo dǒu soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times) 蛋 炒 饭 节 Dàn chǎo fàn jié Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
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