Food quote: Eating lotus root with one chopstick - picky people. Some people are picky in sex. They always find things that don't please others, and they always find something to nag about when they have nothing to do. It's like picking at the bones in an egg or looking for sand in tofu.

Chopsticks are meant to be used in pairs. People use a few dexterous fingers to control them freely. They can pick up slippery abalone slices and round and thin peanuts... When foreigners come to the East, it takes time and patience to control them well.

This pair of chopsticks is also a very attractive part of Chinese food culture.

If you only have one chopstick and want to eat lotus root, the most convenient thing is to put the tip of the chopstick through the eye hole of the lotus root piece and then pick it up and eat it.

The "picking" in the comment here means to make people look bad in front of others in the north. It means looking for other people's small faults and mistakes in order to ridicule and laugh at them.

"Brother, he has done a great job. For this little problem, you should stop being so picky about eating lotus root with one chopstick!" People who "eat lotus root" like this are really careful.

Shallow and narrow.

If it is your boss, it will be easy for you.

This idiom is more commonly used by northerners.

Food anecdote: Boiling pig intestines with boiling water - the two ends shrink. "Boiling water" means "boiling water", and "scalding" means "cooking". It is said that boiling pig intestines will shrink them immediately.

The charm of this sentence lies in the "shrinking at both ends".

If the market for this type of product is not good, a company that operates not only this product but also other products can expand its business from alternative markets, or it can be said to "make up for the losses outside the dike."

What I am most afraid of is a single operation, and the income will decrease. At that time, I will feel that the expenses are becoming more and more heavy burdens. What I am even more worried about is that the turnover will decrease, but the labor force will have to be increased. It is understandable how difficult it is to operate like this.

The meaning of "scald pig intestines in boiling water - the two ends shrink" is similar to "sell rare and rare".

It is already a difficult situation, and it is made worse by the leakage in the house and the rain all night, which is unspeakable misery!

"The market is not doing well, and Boss is laying off employees. There is a shortage of manpower, service quality has declined, the clerks are dizzy, but there are more complaints than before, and the business volume is decreasing day by day. This vicious cycle seems to continue. Is this considered "boiling water"?

"Blanching pig intestines": both layoffs and loss of business. Gourmet saying: Rice with soy sauce - clean color and clean water In the past, it was common to have food but lack of vegetables, so cheap fermented bean curd, lard residue, and tofu flakes were all available.

If you can't even eat this, add some soy sauce, so the "color" of white rice becomes "rice with soy sauce - color and water". The intention has little to do with the socio-economic depression, but on the contrary

He is secretly mocking some people who pretend to be dignified or put on airs and are "full of information."

"The other one is "tea melon is served as a meal - good people are limited." In the past, sick people had to abstain from certain foods and often used sugar-soaked tea melon strips as dishes. This means that tea melon is used as a meal for the sick -

It is not a "good person", but the "good person" here no longer refers to the physical health, but refers to the quality of character. This is similar to the metaphor of "sores on the head and thick water on the soles of the feet - good people are limited".

Eat porridge with a happy brow, but don’t eat rice with a gloomy brow. In this kind of parallel Cantonese proverb, the last sentence is often the "key point", which is somewhat similar to the idiom, so I will introduce it here.

Li Bai's poem says: "An Neng can destroy my eyebrows and bend my waist to serve the powerful, which makes me unhappy." If you can open your eyebrows happily by eating porridge and water, it is better than eating big fish and meat with both eyebrows locked, but in reality, how many people can do it?

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Food sayings: Boil dumplings in a teapot - pour them with a mouth (Tao) "It is difficult to speak", "Words cannot convey the meaning", "It is difficult to speak", these can all be used as "Cooking dumplings in a teapot - pour them with a mouth" (Tao)

The Tao) cannot come out", expressed in a few words.

Teapots usually have tea leaves inside, add boiling water to make tea, and pour it from the spout to drink.

If a teapot is used as a cooking vessel, and dumplings are put down from the top of the pot, they will be cooked but cannot be poured out from the spout.

It is derived from this: having a mouth but not speaking out (Tao) means that in a certain situation, it is difficult to explain the problem clearly; or one is not good at speaking and has a clumsy tongue, even if one has a mouth, one cannot speak; or to avoid speaking.

Embarrassed, embarrassed to tell the truth... "What ability does he have? Even if his stomach is full of 'materials', but unfortunately they are 'dumplings cooked in a teapot - they can't pour them out even if they have a mouth', what's the use of that?" "What's your name?"

I'm asking him for advice? You don't see his arrogant attitude. I'm like making dumplings in a teapot - I have a mouth but I can't pour them out. It's useless to ask for help." This is another comment.

There is a version, which is "cooking dumplings in a teapot - there is something in the belly, but the mouth can't pour it out", which is written more clearly.

The other one is "boil dumplings in a teapot - you know what you know", which has the same metaphorical meaning as "a mute (or blind man) eats wontons - he knows what he knows", except that the latter is more commonly used; the former is less commonly used.

A list of food quotes related to tofu. Tofu can be steamed, stir-fried with ingredients, and used in soups (cabbage, salted fish heads and tofu are the best soups to heat up). It is really a "versatile" delicacy.