faan6 bou1飯煲饭煲
Jyutpingfaan6 bou1
Yalefaahn bōu
Definition
An electric rice cooker.
colloquialhomefood
How it's used
While 電飯煲 is the full formal name, speakers almost always shorten it to 飯煲 in casual conversation. It is treated as a standard household appliance and is essential in almost every local kitchen. You will often hear people refer to the act of cooking rice simply by mentioning the device itself.
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go3個goExamples
The rice cooker is broken, how are we going to cook rice tonight?
Have you remembered to press the button on the rice cooker yet?
Related words
Common phrases
to press the button on the rice cooker
to wash the rice cooker pot
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Grammar guides
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