dining room; dining hall; mess hall
onigiri (Japanese rice-ball snack)
dining hall; canteen; cafeteria
person hired to lure customers to high-priced restaurants
body double (in eating scenes)
rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served); (fig.) fathead; a good-for-nothing
rice bowl; (fig.) livelihood; job; way of making a living
dishes (of food) (Cantonese)
post cibum (pharm.); to take (medicine) after a meal
an ordinary meal; simple home cooking
to cook; to prepare a meal
to swell on steaming (of hard rice grain)
get or supply meals at a fixed rate; board
(coll.) to burst out laughing
cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors; set meal
pilau; pilaf; a type of food popular among Muslims
bibimbap (Korean cuisine)
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
evening meal; dinner; supper
to soak cooked rice in soup or water; cooked rice reheated in boiling water
rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables
to put some food aside for sb; to invite sb to stay for a meal; invitation to dinner
plain cooked rice; rice with nothing to go with it
meal in a partitioned box
rice with meat and vegetables
an unappealing and unsatisfying meal
to beg (for food or money)
(coll.) to be incompetent; useless; good-for-nothing
to live as a parasite; doing nothing to earn one's keep
(lit.) big rice pan; communal feeding; (fig.) egalitarianism (equal treatment for everyone in same institution)
half cooked rice; (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance; Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4]
tearoom; canteen; cafeteria
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships; (fig.) poor-tasting meal
to stir-fry left-over rice; (fig.) to rehash the same story; to serve up the same old product
rice with meat and vegetables
secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
simple home-style meal; common occurrence; nothing out of the ordinary
leftovers from a meal; (fig.) remnants handed down from others
plain tea and simple food; (fig.) bread and water
gimbap (Korean rice roll similar in appearance to sushi); kimbap
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content
(fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life
having nothing better to do; see 吃飽撐著|吃饱撑着