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lau kui

lau kui

9.9
A spicy homemade dish from a region that people often eat at family meals
  • noun
  • Philippine
translation icon : lau kui
  • It takes several hours to cook authentic lau kui at home.

Examples

  • My grandmother prepares lau kui every holiday, and it quickly disappears from the table.

  • The restaurant’s lau kui was delicious, with just the right amount of spice.

  • I love eating lau kui on weekends.

  • Have you ever tried lau kui?

  • My grandmother prepares lau kui every holiday, and it quickly disappears from the table.

  • It takes several hours to cook authentic lau kui at home.

  • The restaurant's lau kui was delicious, with just the right amount of spice.

Synonyms

bowl of lau kui
vslau kui
9.9

A portion of lau kui served hot in a bowl

is the general dish, not specifically a single bowl serving

Surface Forms

lau kui singular
lau kuis plural

Morphology

lau + kui

Both constituent items are not English dictionary words and the phrase functions as the proper name of a culture-specific dish; a B1 learner who knows the (non‑English) parts would not be able to infer the meaning 'a traditional spicy dish' from them. Dish names and transliterated lexical items are language‑specific and non-compositional for English learners, so the meaning is not derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

Lau kui may come from the picture of a family cooking a spicy pot slowly on the fire, with lau and kui pointing to that long, shared cooking in one pot. That image helps explain why lau kui means a 'traditional, homemade spicy dish'.