Chinese Night Market Words

Does your country have something similar to a night market

a place or an event like this?

Hello, I'm Jade.

It's nighttime now, nighttime

I just finished eating

I finished dinner

and I'm about to go visit a night market, a night market

I'm at the entrance of the night market now

I'm at the entrance of the night market, ready to go in

A night market is when, at night, at night

right now it's night

At night, there's a place

a place, and inside this place there will be a lot of

vendors, lots of places selling food or some

useful things, a place that sells things

so it's called a night market

So later we'll go check out together

what's inside the night market

There are lots of cars here

These cars are parked here

A lot of cars are parked here

Up ahead, these ones with the lights on

the ones with the lights on are the night market stalls

stalls, so many stalls selling things

This is the night market

night market

This is a stall.

A stall, they sell lemon tea here.

Lemon tea, these are lemon teas

for drinking, drinks

lots of lemons, these lemons.

This is barbecue

a barbecue stall

There are skewers of food

You pick the food yourself

pick it yourself, then give it to the老板 to grill

barbecue, these are barbecued items

They're on skewers

like chicken wings, these chicken wings

chicken wings, and shrimp, shrimp

some meat, beef and pork

My friend just bought a serving of takoyaki.

These are bamboo skewers, bamboo skewers,

takoyaki like this,

one serving, this is one serving of takoyaki.

There are some tables and chairs here.

tables and chairs

After people buy things, they'll sit

sit here, sit here and eat.

There are stools, stools and tables

for everyone to sit here and eat.

So many people, there are so many people at this night market.

This little stall has a lot of people

so many people lining up to buy

lining up

This is a stall selling soufflé

a little stall selling a kind of cake, a dessert

The老板 is making it, making this cake

A lot of people are waiting, the people next to it are all waiting

This is a game called ring toss.

ring toss

In China, many parks, and night markets

will have this kind of game

You use money, spend money

to buy ten, or more, rings

Then there are some items

you throw them from a distance

throw the rings

Whichever thing you land a ring on

you can take that item home

This is a game that many places in China

will have

Boss, hey,

I want a sugarcane juice with gotu kola.

Yeah, thirteen, right?

Yeah, do you want ice?

A little. Do you want it?

Oh.

Thirteen, right? Okay.

Add a little ice.

Yeah, yeah, less ice is fine.

I turned around.

Thanks. Ah, thanks.

This is sugarcane, sugarcane

a kind of fruit

and some herbs

that is, plants

a plant called gotu kola

then they mix them together and juice them

juice it

it's something like juice

a drink

I just bought a drink from this stall

this is a drink

it's sugarcane plus a plant

an herbal juice

It tastes sweet, very refreshing

We call drinks made from these plants herbal tea

herbal tea, so this also counts as a kind of herbal tea

It's a drink that's good for your health

These stalls all sell barbecue, barbecue

at the night market

barbecue should be the most common food

barbecue, look at so many people

so many people buy it and sit here to eat

Barbecue is the most common food at night markets

This is grilled oysters, grilled oysters

Oysters are also a very common night market food

They should count as seafood, seafood

The usual way to make them is to grill them like this

They'll add some minced garlic on top

add garlic, grilled oysters

oysters, oysters

These are grilled oysters

This stall grills fish

It has fresh, live fish

here, in the water

live fish, very fresh

Then they take them out and grill them right next to here

Look at the fresh fish

These fish are in the water

They're alive in the water, very fresh

After taking them out, they grill them right next to here, grilled fish

grilled fish on the spot

very fresh

This is grilled squid, grilled squid

These are squid.

Grilled squid is also a very common food at night markets

a kind of delicacy.

The老板 is grilling squid,

on the griddle, griddled grilled squid.

Okay, that about wraps up tonight's night market visit.

A night market with lots of people and lots of stalls.

Very lively, a very lively night market.

Does your country have something similar to a night market

a place or an event like this?

Have you ever been to China and visited a night market like this?

You can tell me in the comments below.

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