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Definition
Medium-well done (steak or other meat).
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How it's used
Steak doneness is described using fractions of ten in Cantonese. While seven tenths implies medium-well, the scale is strictly used for meat and does not apply to other types of cooking or abstract progress.
Examples
I want this steak medium-well.
Do you like your steak medium-well or well-done?
Related words
Common phrases
steak cooked medium-well
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with the Mandarin way of expressing doneness, as Cantonese speakers rely exclusively on the fraction system for steak orders.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
