Chinese meal
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comida china
- That was one of the best Chinese meals I ever had at this.
That was one of the best Chinese meals I ever had at this.
- That was one of the best Chinese meals I ever had at this.
Examples
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But a gentleman from the audience suggested that perhaps when the Chinese companies won contracts, they could leave their cooks behind and teach locals to cook Chinese meals for their staff.
Blog text (10) -
It's a reference to a Chinese meal in Toronto.
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This year I'm going to a friend's place, who has promised to cook a delicious Chinese meal.
Blog text (31) -
There's always plenty of a Chinese meal for another, don't you find?
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A real Chinese meal is a progression of foods, textures, and tastes.
Blog text (25) -
An evening with Jonathon over a Chinese meal was like the old joke, he thought, a contest in which the winner received one week in Philadelphia, the second-place winner two weeks.
Fiction book (1990) -
I invited my friends over for a traditional Chinese meal featuring dumplings and stir-fried vegetables.
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Last night, I enjoyed a delicious Chinese meal that included sweet and sour chicken and fried rice.
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She tried her hand at preparing a homemade Chinese meal with authentic recipes passed down from her grandmother.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a meal consisting of dishes characteristic of Chinese cuisine' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Chinese' (relating to China or its cuisine) with 'meal' (a food event). This adjectival + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows a straightforward modifier-head pattern that a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand.
Etymology
Chinese meal is a name for a meal made of dishes from China, often with rice, several shared plates and chopsticks. So it means 'a meal made of Chinese dishes'.