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Jan 2024
12m 10s

Intermediate | Sweet Roasted Chestnuts

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Walking through a street food miasma where you smell the food before you see it, and seeing it is not necessarily believing it, this lesson is about one of the better smelling and easily-identifiable of the street foods of China. Which in itself is a good enough reason to purchase. Listen to this podcast and learn how to, in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0832

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