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Chinese Loanwords in Food

Chinese Loanwords in Food. History of the English Language Milano Chang 97501045 Tiffany Huang 97501024. Chow mein 炒麵. Chow mein 炒麵. Etymology: Chinese (Cantonese) Date: 1898

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Chinese Loanwords in Food

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  1. Chinese Loanwords in Food History of the English Language Milano Chang 97501045 Tiffany Huang 97501024

  2. Chow mein炒麵

  3. Chow mein炒麵 • Etymology: Chinese (Cantonese) • Date: 1898 • 1903 R. L. MCCARDELL Conv. of Chorus Girl 142 Chaw main is good, too. That's chicken and ginger and mushrooms and bamboo sprouts and other stuff.

  4. Chow Mein Bread 炒麵麵包

  5. Tofu 豆腐

  6. Tofu 豆腐 Etymology: Japan (which itself derives from the Chinese dòufu) Date: 1771 1880Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan VIII. 399 Tôfu is made by pounding the soy beans after soaking in water.

  7. Tofu 豆腐 Stinky tofu 臭豆腐 Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐

  8. Won ton 餛飩

  9. Won ton 餛飩 Etymology: Chinese (Cantonese) Date: 1934 1948 R. W. DANA Where to eat in New York 66 The theater and night-club performers drop in late for chicken egg foo yong, a won ton soup, squab, or Chinese steak.

  10. Longan 龍眼

  11. Longan 龍眼 Etymology: Chinese (Beijing) Date: 1732 1732 S. BARON Descript. Tonqueen in Churchill's Voy. III. 4 The fruit called Jean or Lungung (that is, Dragon's eggs [sic]) by the Chinese.

  12. Lychee 荔枝

  13. Lychee 荔枝 Etymology: Chinese (Beijing) Date: 1588 1588 PARKE tr. Mendoza's Hist. China iii. 6 They haue a kinde of plummes that they doo call Lechias. (They have a kind of plumes that they do call lechias.) Different spelling- leechee, li-chee, lichi, li-chi, lychee

  14. Bok choy 白菜

  15. Bok choy 白菜 Etymology：Chinese(Cantonese ) Date: 1847 1847 R. FORTUNE Three Years' Wanderings China xvi. 306 The celebrated ‘Pak-tsae’, or white cabbage of Shantung and Peking, is a very different plant.

  16. Dim sum　點心

  17. Dim sum　點心 Etymology: Chinese (Cantonese) Date: 1948 1948 R. W. DANA Where to eat in N.Y. 75 Dim sum varies according to the season .

  18. Ginseng 人參

  19. Ginseng 人參 Etymology: Chinese (Beijing) Date: 1654 1691 RAY Creation I. (1692) 195 The Cotton Trees..the Nisi, or Genseg; the Numerose Balsam, and Gum-trees.

  20. Hoisin 海鮮

  21. Hoisin 海鮮 Etymology: Chinese (Cantonese) Date: 1968 1936 S. K. CHENG Shanghai Restaurant Chinese Cookery Bk. 14, 2 Teaspoonfuls Hoy Seen Jeung (Mixed Fruit Jam Sauce)

  22. Loquat 蘆橘 Etymology: Chinese (Cantonese) Date: 1820 1820Trans. Hort. Soc. London III. 229 You desire me [sc. Lord Bagot] to give you some information as to my mode of treating the Lo-quat. Ibid. 301 In 1813 ripe fruits of the Lo-quat were presented to the Horticultural Society by Lord Bagot.

  23. Loquat 蘆橘 • 羅浮山下四時春，蘆橘楊梅次第新。日啖荔枝三百顆，不辭長作嶺南人。 　　　　　蘇軾　

  24. Reference http://www.merriam-webster.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chinese_origin http://dictionary.oed.com http://www.flickr.com/groups/tw

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