The idioms used to describe delicious and good-looking food include: mouth-watering, delicacies on a jade plate, delicacies, good color and taste, eight delicacies, crisp and smooth, endless aftertaste, delicacies from mountains and seas, lingan liver and phoenix marrow, etc. .

1. Salivating chuí xián yù dī

Interpretation: So greedy that your saliva is dripping. It describes someone who is very greedy and wants to eat. It also means that when you see something good, you are very satisfied. Envy, desperately want it.

Source: Tang Dynasty Liu Zongyuan's "Zhao Hai Jia Wen": "Salivating makes people dazzle, and squandering makes people squander."

2. Delicious food měi wèi jiā yáo

Interpretation: fine, exquisite and delicious meals or delicious food, also refers to delicious food defined by individuals. Describes food as delicious and applauding.

Source: Wang Shuo's "I Am Your Dad": "When Ma Rui saw his father having a delicious meal, the satisfaction and contentment on his face, the genuine happiness, he suddenly realized. ”

3. Bā zhēn yù shí

Definition: Generally refers to exquisite dishes.

Source: Volume 3 of "The Romance of the West Chamber" by Dong Jieyuan of Jin Dynasty: "Inviting a man to a meal with eight treasures and jade food can speak a thousand words about business."

Translation: I have a banquet with delicious food. I invite you to participate. I have thousands of words that I want to say to you.

4. Mountain delicacies shān zhēn hǎi wèi

Definition: Various precious foods produced in the mountains and sea.

Source: "Chang'an Taoist Poems" by Wei Yingwu of the Tang Dynasty: "The delicacies of mountains and seas are like abandoning the barriers, and cooking calves and lambs is like breaking sunflowers."

Translation: Eating delicacies of mountains and seas is like losing home. They don't want the same things. Eating cows and sheep is like eating melon seeds.

5. Endless aftertaste huí wèi wú qióng

Definition: refers to the taste left after eating. The metaphor makes more sense the more I think about it afterwards.

Source: The poem "Olive" by Wang Yucheng of the Song Dynasty: "After a long time of aftertaste, I finally feel that it is as sweet as sugar."

Translation: After a long time of aftertaste, I still feel that it is very sweet.