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roujiamo

roujiamo noun: a Chinese meat sandwich, usually containing pork that has been stewed in a seasoned soup, originating from the cuisine of Shaanxi.

roujiamo: a Chinese meat sandwich, usually containing pork that has been stewed in a seasoned soup,...
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Noun

roujiamo (uncountable)

  1. A Chinese meat sandwich, usually containing pork that has been stewed in a seasoned soup, originating from the cuisine of Shaanxi.
    • Within Xi’an, Hui and Han alike eat roujiamo, the Chinese hamburger: meat tucked into flatbread that’s been crisped on the grill until it shows tiger skin on one side — shades of orange and black — and a chrysanthemum whorl on the other. The Han make it with long-braised pork, doused with a...2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 May 2020

Synonyms of roujiamo

Origin of roujiamo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肉夾饃 /肉夹馍.

Questions about roujiamo

What does roujiamo mean?
Roujiamo means a Chinese meat sandwich, usually containing pork that has been stewed in a seasoned soup, originating from the cuisine of Shaanxi.
What part of speech is roujiamo?
Roujiamo is a noun.

Words near roujiamo in the dictionary

  1. rouging
  2. Rouillard
  3. Rouillards
  4. rouille
  5. rouilles
  6. roujiamo
  7. Rouketopolemos
  8. roukoop
  9. roul roul
  10. roul rouls
  11. roul-roul

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