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Jun 2025
17m 41s

Elementary | That's Not Your Food

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One of the great things about restaurants in China is that they often bring out your food faster than you can order it. On the downside, sometimes the food isn't quite what you had in mind... Learn about a common dish today, and about how to describe something you might not have ordered! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1406

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