mei6 cin1 laai1 min6味千拉麵味千拉面
Jyutpingmei6 cin1 laai1 min6
Yalemeih chīn lāai mihn
Definition
Ajisen Ramen, a Japanese ramen restaurant chain.
colloquialfoodplaces
How it's used
Restaurants in Hong Kong are often referred to by their brand names as if they were common nouns. When suggesting a place to eat, locals frequently drop the word for restaurant and just use the brand name directly. It functions as a destination or a subject in sentences about dining out.
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gaan1間gānExamples
Shall we go eat at Ajisen Ramen tonight?
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
