土豆烧牛肉 (tǔdòu shāo niúròu) · beef braised with potatoes

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一份土豆烧牛肉 fèn

Meanings

1 beef braised with potatoes

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About the dish

家常菜 Home-style · 热菜 Hot dish

Chunks of beef, often brisket, rib or shoulder, braised slowly with potato in soy sauce and spices until tender, in a thick brown sauce. Savoury and a little sweet; the potato turns soft and floury. Some kitchens add chili.

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Examples

HSK 4

这家食堂每周三都有土豆烧牛肉，去晚了就没了。

Zhè jiā shítáng měi zhōusān dōu yǒu tǔdòu shāo niúròu, qù wǎn le jiù méi le.

This canteen has beef with potatoes every Wednesday, and if you go late it's gone.

HSK 7-9

土豆烧牛肉要炖一个多小时。

Tǔdòu shāo niúròu yào dùn yí ge duō xiǎoshí.

Beef braised with potatoes needs to stew for over an hour.

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culture

In the 1960s, Chinese polemics used 土豆烧牛肉 as a mocking name for Khrushchev's "goulash communism", so the dish name also turns up in political writing of that era.