It's time for
dinner.
该吃饭了。
Dinner is ready.
正餐准备好了。
What is for
dinner?
晚饭吃什么?
I was invited to
dinner.
我受邀请赴晚宴。
Staff members in the dining hall and kitchen were so busy that they combine lunch and dinner to save time,” said head of the Qianmen outlet of Quanjude.
餐厅和厨房的工作人员非常忙碌,为了节省时间,他们把午餐和晚餐结合在一起,”全聚德前门分店的负责人说。
The awareness videos associate the "Drink More Water" concept with three typical social occasions: gathering at a casual bar, enjoying a business dinner and partying at a night club.
宣传视频将“多喝水”的概念与三种典型的社交场合联系在一起:在休闲酒吧聚会、享受商务晚餐和在夜总会聚会。
The three chefs — Antonio Guida from Mandarin Oriental Milan restaurant Seta, Alain Roux from Mandarin Oriental Bangkok restaurant Le Normandie, and Deiniol Pritchard from Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal — were invited to present their exceptional dishes during May, July and September respectively.
三位厨师——米兰文华东方餐厅Seta的Antonio Guida、曼谷文华东方酒店Le Normandie的Alain Roux和伦敦海德公园文华东方餐馆Dinner by Heston Blumenthal的Deiniol Pritchard——分别受邀在5月、7月和9月展示了他们的特色菜肴。
For the just-concluded Spring Festival holiday, Quanjude launched its premade Chinese New Year's Eve dinner packages, which encompassed the major regional cuisines of Beijing and Sichuan and Shandong provinces.
在刚刚结束的春节假期,全聚德推出了预制的中国年夜饭套餐,其中包括北京、四川和山东省的主要地区美食。
Fourteen Ritz-Carlton hotels across China held a unique gastronomic dinner event presenting a traditional French menu on a single evening in late October.
10月下旬,中国14家丽思卡尔顿酒店在一个晚上举办了一场独特的美食晚宴,展示了传统的法式菜单。
This is the first time that The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin brings the Escoffier Gastronomic Dinner to Tianjin, to create a unique experience to guests in Tianjin with the culinary spirit of Auguste Escoffier at ZEST.
这是天津丽思卡尔顿酒店首次将Escoffier美食晚餐带到天津,以ZEST的Auguste Escoffier的烹饪精神为天津客人创造独特的体验。
Our leisure time is easygoing, and now I have my hobby-enjoying an evening outdoors after dinner each day.
我们的休闲时间很轻松,现在我有了自己的爱好——每天晚饭后在户外度过一个晚上。
With its low alcohol, rich taste and ready-to-drink features, Lemon-Dou offers young people a fresh choice when they want to have a drink with friends during weekends, at dinner or while watching TV at night, said Coca-Cola.
"Before, during the weekdays, many people are just coming home and having a very quick dinner.
The launch of the toys follows on from the success of popular sets Dragon Boat Race, Dragon Dance and Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner, which were also created to mark Chinese festivities.
"This new investment will help Chuzhou and local farmers prosper as they work with us to deliver protein to dinner tables around the world," said Marcel Smits, chairman of Cargill Asia Pacific.
People in Spain don’t eat dinner till 10 o’clock.
The young are usually forced to drink baijiu as part of good manners at dinner tables.
The donation of 10 million Namibia dollars ($722,000) to the Namibia Shack Dwellers Federations was announced at a gala dinner held on Monday evening in Windhoek at the 10-year partnership celebrations between MTC and Huawei.
Toward this end, Ai invites about 10 staff representatives from different departments every week for lunch or dinner, during which they brainstorm, a process that also helps improve organizational communication.
The woman, who described it as a trap, said she was really drunk at a party of about 20 men and four women hosted by Liu on Aug 30, which ended around 9:30 pm as indicated by the dinner receipt, Reuters reported.
She wrote that Liu had forced her to have sex with him at her apartment after a dinner party.
"A lot of relations and connections are already forming (between China and Pittsburgh), so we want to continue that along," he said during a welcome dinner the city organized for the Chinese visitors on Friday.
The company also entered the ride-hailing sector recently to link dining with transportation, where users can directly book a taxi where they reserved a restaurant table for dinner.
Banga received USCIB's International Leadership Award at a gala dinner at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in recognition of Mastercard's ongoing leadership to extend the benefits of an expanding economy to all segments of society.
Zhang said this during a welcoming dinner for the visiting Moutai delegation held in the capital Windhoek Monday.
The company already has 25,000 hosts in 130 countries who are eager to have strangers over to dinner.
Kweichow Moutai, a distilled Chinese liquor produced in southwestern Guizhou province, is considered the country's national liquor and is often served on official occasions such as State banquets, not to mention on many family dinner tables throughout the nation.
Bookings for the dinner on the Spring Festival eve have also entered the peak period.
Data from Meituan and Dianping show search volume for the dinner on the Spring Festival eve rose 40 percent from last week.
Geographically, residents in the first tier cities attach greater importance to the dinner on the Spring Festival eve.
Statistics from Meiduan and Dianping show Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen rank the top five in term of booking volumes for the eve's dinner around the country.
As for activities planned for the break, 97 percent of young individuals will prioritize "food and drinks", 55 percent will focus on activities imbued with festival vibes, 36 percent plan to participate in Lunar New Year dinner preparations, 36 percent will take part in indoor entertainment and recreational activities while some 30 percent will focus on healthy activities and gift giving.
The decline in prices of pork - a staple for Chinese dinner tables - narrowed from 31.8 percent in November to 26.1 percent in December.
Prices for pork - a staple for Chinese dinner tables - decreased by 22 percent in September compared with a year earlier, while fresh vegetable prices dipped by 6.4 percent year-on-year.
"The restaurant has become busy and crowded in the evening, with a continuous stream of customers coming for dinner.
"My 'joy combo' of dinner, beer, and movies have finally made its comeback," said Zhang Hongliang, a Beijing resident who joined his friends for the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water at a cinema in Haidian district.
"Though I'm under some financial burden, having brunch or dinner with friends and family members is important to me.
Wang Shouwen, China's vice-minister of commerce, said in a speech via a video link at the 43rd Canada-China Business Council business dinner in Beijing on Wednesday that there is still big potential for boosting trade between China and Canada, and efforts are needed to seize the opportunities in global economic recovery to further expand bilateral cooperation.
Apart from its well-known brands such as Haagen-Dazs and dinner kits brand Wanchai Ferry, General Mills will bring into the Chinese market for the first time its high-end pet food brand Blue Buffalo.
For instance, visitors can have dinner at a restaurant with penguins walking about.
Products and services related to Lunar New Year's Eve dinner surged 78.8 percent from the Spring Festival holiday in 2020, while online sales of movie tickets spiked 412.7 percent on yearly basis to surpass 9 billion yuan, the data shows.
As a reward, each of them would receive an allowance, a big New Year's Eve dinner, red envelops as well as gift packages for their parents and family at home, said Cheng.
Merchants are also targeting different groups of people by providing customized take-away meal kits, such as single-person dinner packages and family reunion dinner packages for six to 10 persons, in a bid to attract more consumers.
Merchants are also targeting different groups of people by providing customized takeaway meal kits, such as single-person dinner packages and family reunion dinner packages for six to 10 persons, in a bid to woo more consumers.
Gu spent around 3,000 yuan to order an at-home Chinese New Year's Eve dinner from a chef-on-demand platform.
Yu, a 35-year-old housewife in Beijing, said, "My family seldom has jam during dinner and the annual purchase of such products is more or less four to five jars.
HAIKOU — Imagine a place where you can ride a motorboat in the blue sea, sip coffee while reading in a seaside bookstore, enjoy a candlelight dinner or simply unwind with some self-brewed tea on the beach under the starry night sky.
On Valentine's Day, which fell on Tuesday, many couples chose to celebrate it with a romantic dinner.
"Thanks to the ready-made food I had purchased online, we enjoyed a decent Spring Festival dinner," said Chen, who lives in East China's Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province.
Over half of the customers surveyed said they would buy ready-made dishes for their family reunion dinner.
With an improved fresh food supply chain and more healthy, characteristic recipes to accommodate a wider variety of appetites, ready-made food is expected to become more dominant on Chinese people's dinner tables, Bai said.
The demand for dinner, hot pot and tea drinks is expected to be strong during family reunions and friends gatherings in this year's Spring Festival, according to the study into chain catering and tea drinks companies.
With Lunar New Year around the corner, Crowne Plaza Beijing Zhongguancun has launched four Family Reunion Dinner set menus at its Rouge Chinese restaurant.
Multi-award-winning chef Li Aixiong from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, has been invited to the hotel to help craft the Family Reunion Dinner.
Shangri-La Qiantan Shanghai will embrace the Year of the Rabbit with a New Year's Eve dinner, premium poon choi, lo hei and other delicacies, also including colorful festival gifts.
With strong price competitiveness, foodstuffs imported from China have been increasingly appearing on dinner tables there, South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported.
"After dinner, our child joined others in a frisbee game, played with a remote-controlled car and went skateboarding while we relaxed in the tent.
"The partially prepared dishes are an ideal choice for young people like me who just have basic cooking skills but still want to make a big dinner.
- While 35-year-old Dai Ji loves to host dinner parties, she does not have the same passion for cooking.
With chilly weather in the northern part of China, indoor activities such as going for dinner, watching performances and shopping have attracted many tourists, according to Mafengwo, a travel service and social networking platform.
An elder Beijinger surnamed Qiao finds it easy to enjoy a family dinner with his wife and child who prefer Western food.
When it comes to consumption, dinner catering takes the major part.
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Such options have made it more convenient for diners who cannot afford time for an official dinner in brick-and-mortar restaurants.
Meanwhile, staff members of some finance, technology and service companies tend to order group meals for lunch or dinner.
For instance, global hospitality company Hilton has launched a torrent of Lunar New Year's Eve Dinner packages, take-away services, and festive-themed items, as it witnessed a surge in Spring Festival dining bookings at many of its hotels.
Searches for "New Year's Eve dinner" on food delivery platform Ele.
In addition, some merchants are planning to launch deluxe New Year's Eve dinner packages for singles.
E-commerce giant JD's fresh food supermarket 7Fresh has also launched customized Lunar New Year's Eve dinner packages for two to 10 people, covering seafood dishes such as lobsters, steamed sea bass and some local specialties.
The search volume of local tourism and surrounding areas jumped 137 percent, with the Lunar New Year's Eve dinner, hot spring, skiing and parent-child campaign the hot words on the search engine, said Lvmama, another online travel agency.
He Lixin, 23, a public relations practitioner in Beijing, drinks a bottle of a meal replacement shake at dinner about once or twice a week, when she does not want to cook a meal for herself.
That's when she began consuming a women's multivitamin tablet every morning, complemented by an acai berry capsule each at lunch and dinner, topped off by a bilberry lutein tablet before going to bed.
But nowadays, Liu would stay at home and prepare breakfast and dinner by herself, such as stewing a bowl of chicken soup with the electric cooker and baking food.
For long flights that don't cover regular breakfast, lunch or dinner time slots, China Eastern will provide packaged in-flight meals in gift boxes.
Besides breakfast, lunch and dinner, extra meals such as brunch, afternoon tea and midnight snacks are also important to the food delivery industry.
Operating between 7 am and midnight usually near office buildings, Ego aims to offer white-collar employees a convenient access for breakfast, lunch and dinner, according to Ego's management.
She is used to turning on the radio as it broadcasts something while cooking dinner.
"People keep their ears occupied on their way home, before, during and after dinner, and before going to sleep.
"Most people in Europe and the Americas store ice cream in refrigerators, to share with families and friends after dinner or during weekends.
Services, retail intersect on new platforms, boost O2O model and consumer experienceZhang Chenlin, 31, a bank employee in Beijing, prefers to use mobile apps to buy, well, almost everything these days-lunch, dinner, groceries, flowers, fruits, cosmetics, medicine, magazines, accessories, household stuff, you name it.
A woman surnamed Guo said that after having dinner with friends at 12 midnight, subways had stopped service and it was also hard to find a taxi to return home.
Cecilia Fu, 44, an entrepreneur from Shanghai, said she frequently drinks wine with dinner, whether at home or at gatherings with friends.
From biscuits containing insect protein and egg-free mayonnaise to meal replacement powder and pork chops grown in a lab, as technology advances, foods that once only existed in science-fiction movies are appearing more frequently on dinner tables.
We played games, chatted, cooked dinner and sang birthday songs together.
I worked in a winery after my graduation and decided to become a sommelier and work 'on the front line' - dinner service.
As sommeliers mostly work at dinner services, social and family obligations were often detriments that prevented women from working in the evening for long hours.
She said although the ratio of women in the profession was still low, it is something that can certainly improve the quality of dinner services.
"Girls tend to be more patient and empathetic during dinner service, which is core to the dining experience," she said.
"We meet all kinds of people during the dinner service, sometimes they can be stubborn and arrogant, and sometimes you need to detect the diners' relationship from the atmosphere to pick a suitable wine for them - if they are dating, if they are there for formal conversation.
Usually she begins her preparations weeks in advance by buying a raft of local and overseas fresh food products for the annual get-together dinner.
Cambodia and China on Tuesday jointly hosted a gala dinner to promote mutual tourism destinations.
At the gala dinner, video clips featuring attractive tourism destinations, culture, tradition and customs in the two countries were also screened.
As New Zealand's must-eat seafood, Kiwi lobster is considered the sweetest tasting and most succulent variety of lobster available and is highly sought at the Asian market, where it is the "lobster of choice" particularly at the Chinese dinner table.
"We (people in the industry) are brothers and we have each other's backs," said a senior executive of a gold company, while downing Chinese liquor at the dinner table.
"Vegetables from China have brought more choices to our dinner table, and changed our eating habits," he said.
For the post-1960s generation, a wedding ceremony could simply mean a family dinner together, but for those born in the 1980s and 1990s, it means a fancy hotel, decorating the venue with fresh flowers, a diamond ring and a full-blown ceremony.
Sometimes we even have ice cream and bread for dinner," Desideri said.
In addition, the factory offers lunch and dinner, providing a dorm/factory life to reduce the influence to a minimum.
"We believe car ownership makes no sense in the future," Lyft Chief Executive John Zimmer said at a CES dinner event.
Some merchants and financial institutions spare no effort to encourage young people to spend lavishly — wearing brand-name clothes and inviting their friends for dinner at a nice restaurant — although their parents do not make much money.
Some merchants and financial institutions spare no effort to encourage young people to spend lavishly - wearing brand-name clothes and inviting their friends for dinner at a nice restaurant - although their parents do not make much money.
During a working dinner held on Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the two leaders had positive and constructive discussions over trade and economic issues and agreed not to impose additional tariffs.
"Cognizant of this fact, Standard Bank has worked closely with various Chinese captains of industry, and recently held a gala dinner in their honour, drawing them closer into the fold," Mungunda said.
Han also attended a welcome dinner hosted by Chinese and British business communities in London on Thursday.