麻婆豆腐
Established dish name decomposed into origin story (“Bean curd made by a pockmarked woman”) instead of kept as a proper culinary unit — like reading “Hamburger” as “ham.”
Chinese zh
麻婆豆腐
Word
Established dish name decomposed into origin story (“Bean curd made by a pockmarked woman”) instead of kept as a proper culinary unit — like reading “Hamburger” as “ham.”
Note
Grok menu chat seed zh.mapo_tofu_proper_name. Chat line: “atoms in syntax, galaxies in the mind.”
English en
not yet recorded
Lost connotation
Established dish name decomposed into origin story (“Bean curd made by a pockmarked woman”) instead of kept as a proper culinary unit — like reading “Hamburger” as “ham.”
Note
Grok menu chat seed zh.mapo_tofu_proper_name. Chat line: “atoms in syntax, galaxies in the mind.”
Compensations recorded: keep_proper_name, optional_etymology_aside.
Related: dish names as atomic units in menu grammar; 麻婆 / Mapo as proper name.