zaai1 pou3齋舖斋铺
Jyutpingzaai1 pou3
Yalejāai pou
Definition
A vegetarian restaurant or shop.
colloquialfoodplaces
How it's used
Refers specifically to a shop selling vegetarian food products or prepared vegetarian meals. It is often used to describe small, traditional establishments that focus on Buddhist-style vegetarian cuisine rather than modern health food stores. The term carries a sense of local, unpretentious dining or shopping.
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gaan1間gānExamples
Is there a vegetarian store nearby?
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Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 齋菜, which refers to the vegetarian dishes themselves rather than the physical shop. Using 齋舖 to describe a general supermarket that happens to have a vegetarian section is unnatural.
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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.
