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打邊爐 in words.hk is daa2 bin1 lou4, a verb. The first sense begins with the word 火鍋, then the method: raw food goes into simmering soup or water and is cooked there. Both examples mark 晚 as maan1. One says everybody is here, so have hotpot tonight: easy to prepare, and people can sit around and talk. The other says the weather is cold, so go for hotpot tonight.

The second sense turns to smoke. Several people smoke around an ashtray, or around a rubbish bin that has one. The explanation says the hands look like chopsticks stirring, and smoke rises in the middle, so the group looks like a hotpot. The example says that after the government banned indoor smoking, many people had to smoke around street bins. Another is lunchtime, with many people at the bin outside. 火鍋 appears in the first sense and in the see-also list. A search for 火鍋 alone returns no page. to-jyutping gives fo2 wo1.

The near synonym is 烚下烚下, and that spelling has two entries. The first also takes the spellings 拾下拾下, 煠下煠下, 熠下熠下 and 霎吓霎吓, read saap6 haa5 saap6 haa5. 拾下拾下 also has sap6 haa5 sap6 haa5. The meaning is slow to react, unaware of what is around. The second entry is tagged slang. It has only saap6 haa5 saap6 haa5, and the definition is simply 打邊爐. The example asks when the group will go to Tsuen Wan for hotpot again.

沙嗲 saa3 de1 is a Southeast Asian sauce whose main ingredient is peanut. The English for the collocation 沙嗲牛肉麪 is beef instant noodles with satay sauce. The near synonym written there is 沙茶, which has no page. 沙爹 has none either. to-jyutping gives saa1 de1, different from saa3. The dictionary does not say the two spellings name one sauce. Instant noodles are in the convenience store.

鴛鴦 lists jyun1 joeng1 and jin1 joeng1 at the top of the entry. The bird sense, male 鴛 and female 鴦, uses jyun1 in the example of many ducks on a lake. The couple sense does too: 苦命鴛鴦, 鴛鴦房, 棒打鴛鴦. The third sense is two things made into a pair. The collocation 鴛鴦劍 is still jyun1. The fourth is two different things put together. 鴛鴦炒飯 is marked jin1 joeng1, and the example of two socks that do not match is also jin1. The fifth is the drink: coffee mixed with milk tea. The example 「一杯鴛鴦」 is marked jin1 as well. The entry never mentions a pot of two soups. to-jyutping reads 鴛鴦 alone, and 一杯鴛鴦, as jyun1 joeng1 first. 鴛鴦炒飯 is the string that comes out jin1 joeng1. The player uses those four characters.

牛丸 ngau4 jyun2 is a meatball made of beef. A parenthesis says some also contain pork. The measure is 粒. 午餐肉 ng5 caan1 juk6 is canned, compressed, prepared meat, usually pork mixed with starch, salt and spices. The English gives spam and pork luncheon meat.

皇帝菜 wong4 dai3 coi3 has a one-line explanation: the colloquial name of 茼蒿. 茼蒿 is also written 唐蒿 and 塘蒿. 茼蒿 is tong4 hou1, with tong4 ou1 also listed. The 唐蒿 and 塘蒿 lines give only tong4 hou1. The vegetable holds a lot of water, yellows easily, and is meant to be eaten fresh.

肥牛, 蝦滑, 麻辣, 清湯, 湯底 and 加湯 have no entries. to-jyutping gives fei4 ngau4, haa1 waat2, maa4 laat6, cing1 tong1, tong1 dai2 and gaa1 tong1. The character 滑, on its own entry, is waat6: little resistance on a surface. 蝦滑 has no page, and the converter reads 滑 there as waat2. The tomato entry is a fruit and vegetable. It is in the wet market. That page has no hotpot.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 打邊爐, 烚下烚下, 沙嗲, 鴛鴦, 牛丸, 午餐肉, 皇帝菜, 茼蒿, 滑