Word: ganbei
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...done. In the tasting room, three generations of Chinese families sit at tables, passing Tsingtao blond, dark and even green (the latter is made with spirulina) from grandparent to parent to child. A four-year-old downs his, smacks his lips, and challenges mom to a toast. Cries of "Ganbei! [Cheers!]" echo in the hall as faces flush and cigarettes are lit. Tourists from Japan, Taiwan and Korea eye one another, making prideful toasts. A table is accidentally tipped over, a pitcher smashes to pieces, and a janitor mops up. Then the next group's shouts and laughter spill into...
...done. In the tasting room, three generations of Chinese families sit at tables, passing Tsingtao blond, dark and even green (the latter is made with spirulina) from grandparent to parent to child. A four-year-old downs his, smacks his lips, and challenges mom to a toast. Cries of "Ganbei! [Cheers!]" echo in the hall as faces flush and cigarettes are lit. Tourists from Japan, Taiwan and Korea eye one another, making prideful toasts. A table is accidentally tipped over, a pitcher smashes to pieces, and a janitor mops up. Then the next group's shouts and laughter spill into...
...brought to a frothy boil along with mutton, beef, noodles, vegetables, coriander and scallions. Puffed up like tiny spaetzle, the bread dumplings fleshed out a satisfying soup that was made fiery, sharp and aromatic with additions of chili and sesame oils, and winy, amber-colored aged vinegar. Many ganbei, or toasts, drunk with the strong-smelling mao-tai whisky, cloyingly sweet orange soda or cool, refreshing Chinese beer were raised...
...TIME research librarians, she attempted to verify every fact and figure included in the excerpts. Inevitably, some niggling little problems arose. Should the traditional Chinese phrase for "Bottoms up," for example, be transliterated as gam-bei, the dialect version, as it appears in the book? Or should it be ganbei, the Mandarin version? We settled on the latter...
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