佳肴 jiāyáo fine food
fine food; delicacies; delicious food
How to remember 佳肴: 佳 good + 肴 dressed meat = fine food.
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How it is used
- Fine delicacies / delicious dishes - 美酒佳肴 (měijiǔ jiāyáo) fine wine and gourmet food.
- Written/elegant; 佳 = fine + 肴 = cooked dishes. Almost always in the set pairing 美酒佳肴.
- More literary than 好菜 (hǎo cài, good dishes); appears in formal or celebratory descriptions of feasts.