别抖嘛 别抖 弄点肥肉片子
“Don't shake. Easy now. Give me a few slices of fatty meat.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I was talking about Qiu. It's obviously you, a bad influence.”
别抖 嘛 别抖 弄点 肥肉片子
“Don't shake. Easy now. Give me a few slices of fatty meat.”
行了
“Alright.”
“Stop skimping on my food and give me the good cuts.”
In Chinese canteen and street food culture, workers are infamous for shaking their ladles to drop food back into the pot, prompting customers to vocalize their protest to secure fair portions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
slices of fatty meat
Colloquial northern phrasing using the suffix '片子' to refer to sliced pieces of food.
don't shake (the ladle)
A common street/canteen phrase used when customers suspect a canteen worker of shaking the ladle to reduce the serving size.
Softens the imperative while conveying an obvious expectation or urging the interlocutor to comply.
